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Would I feel safe travelling to Pakistan? | Mufti Abu Layth

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do you think it would be safe for you to travel back to pakistan um no i don't think so to be honest um i never really thought about that before this year i thought about it at some point and for the first time this year it occurred to me that actually i don't think it would be some parts yeah so i think maybe like islamabad uh some of the rural parts where you know someone where our family is from in kashmir uh the pakistani kashmir those parts

0:41

here i think they would be safe but i think like karachi i would be very weary now to of places like that because i think um i don't know but i just wouldn't feel um i mean i'm not saying i wouldn't ever go but i i don't know i would feel a bit weary though because one of the issues is you know because of the way i look i i realized like i don't blend in unlike when i used to study in karachi i used to blend in so when i went to karachi a couple of

1:19

years ago i realized that people could clearly tell you know by the goatee and by the spiky here they could clearly tell that i wasn't from the uh regardless of i'm not talking about by picking up through an accent or through uh gestures just by looking simply at me they could tell that this person isn't from there [Music] so yeah and then and that's okay in terms of your general safety and karachi is a bit crazy and it was different you know when i used to be there my uncle uh you know he was this inspector in the police force and

1:58

may allah have mercy on him he passed away a while back i've spoken about that but and i need to run an entire crime branch so it was different then i guess and i never used to feel like this but now one okay this is the safety then there's my opinions which have been more popularized in the last couple of years to places like i have many people in india and pakistan that watch me they contact me and things like this so you know some person may just think oh you know this guy's such a fitnah

2:35

load the load the ak-47 and think well you know what the hell it's we're doing a good deed and just like send me on a a quick trip so yep

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, December 7). Would I feel safe travelling to Pakistan? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/url0pwppp_o/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Would I feel safe travelling to Pakistan? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {12},
  date = {2020-12-07},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/url0pwppp_o/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/url0pwppp_o/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}