Re: Why is science fiction absent from Pakistani media?
Every day life in Pakistan is science fiction, look at how people survive without electricity , clean water, proper nutritious food, without treatment of diseases, people use chooran or taweez to treat appendicitis, the roads in Pakistan look like surface of moon, full of pot holes, kids get educated without teachers in government schools, folks get treated without medications and doctors in government hospitals.
So Pakistani awam are used to this fictional life , that is why science fiction does not appeal to them . Sci-fi does not seem anything fancy or fantasy to them