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So by now...
I guess most of you know how this works.
I show you some news clips about the country in question.
Breaking news out of Pakistan!
There's a crisis in US / Pakistan relations...
Mixed messaging coming from Pakistan...
Pakistan settle your own problems...
World leaders are urging Pakistan and India to take some deep breaths...
And then I go there...
And see what it's like behind the headlines.
But wait a second,
I think this guy has some things to say...
There's one place once described as the world's most dangerous country
that's offering up a pleasant surprise...
Pakistan.
So should we see if we can find that pleasant surprise this man is talking about?
I'm confident we're going to find something.
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More of the Pakistan that I was expecting to see...
Everyone should come in Pakistan...
There's nothing wrong with it...
Wonderfully peaceful now...
Okay, welcome back to Karachi...
I'm just about to head to the airport.
As you see the title, I have something to show you.
But before I go I want to say...
A huge thank you to my friend here, Shahbaz.
I mean, he really made the trip so much more special and...
I really couldn't have done a lot of the things without him, so...
- He is exaggerating... - I'm not.
Look at this beautiful clothing he's bought me.
You guys like it?
- It's a kurta. - Kurta? Okay...
So, it's mostly wear it with shalwar but that's goes with your look, with jeans...
Yeah, yeah...
It's beautiful, thank you.
All right, man... Take care.
Thank you.
- Bye. - Bye. See you...
// Native language //
- How are you? - How are you? I'm fine...
- Good, good... - And you?
Yeah, I'm doing well. Thank you.
// Native language //
Okay, so I just jumped in the taxi here on the way to the airport
with my friend Imran Sultan...
I'm heading to the airport now
and I'll show you this kind of scam thing
that I encountered when I got here... We'll talk about that.
But on the way I want to show you some clips.
Earlier today we went in to this market and I got some clips at the market,
and the market was really quite interesting.
So I wanted to show you some kind of raw clips of the market.
So you can get like fresh spices from here.
// Native language //
Thank you.
So I hope you enjoyed those clips of the market.
Definitely check out that market when you come to Karachi,
if you come to Karachi I put the name here (Express Market).
Anyway, so I'm at the airport here
and this is down at arrivals,
and this is where you'll first come when you arrive in Karachi.
The thing is when I arrived, I got here quite early in the morning,
maybe 6:00 in the morning,
and I went to get a SIM card so I could order, you know, an Uber and things, into the city,
and just have a SIM card, you know...
It's good to have that when you arrive
and most tourists do buy them at the airport, if they're gonna buy them.
This shop behind me here...
I've talked to many locals and things,
and they charged me literally six times the price. (Actually over 8x the price)
And they told me they were giving me something that they didn't actually give me.
They told me they were giving me a SIM card with a 1000 minutes
and 10 gigabytes of data...
And I confirmed with them, I confirmed with them that it was 10 gigabytes of data,
and he charged me roughly 6,500 rupees or 40 US dollars roughly.
So I paid in US dollars in good faith.
And sure enough, when we met up with Shahbaz we checked...
He had actually only put on 1.5 gigabytes of data.
So...
Definitely I want to point this out
and I want to say just before
I've had nothing but good experiences in Pakistan.
This is the only bad experience.
But I feel like I need to make a video about it
because that's the first impression for foreigners.
Right behind me here.
If, you know, a local Pakistani see this maybe...
airport staff or something, and they can do something about it
and make sure that these people do not rip up foreigners.
As you know Pakistan has had a negative reputation in the past,
but now it's much better, right?
And more and more tourists are coming,
and they've opened the borders a bit more,
it's easier to get a visa and things.
So you don't want the reputation of the first point
that people coming in... Getting ripped off.
And literally charging over six times the price.
Again, not saying bad things about Pakistan.
I love Pakistan, is one of my favorite countries,
I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
I've had a wonderful time here.
But it's very important that things like this do not happen,
especially your first point of contact,
because it kind of messes up your perception.
I mean, it didn't for me because I knew...
You know...
Most people know that there's bad people everywhere but mostly good people, but...
You know, it's just important to have this kind of cleared up.
I was thinking about confronting them but I'm just gonna leave it.
I don't want to leave with a conflict my last day here, I've had a great time.
This place "Sania Mobile",
I believe I can see the name.
Be careful.
And, Sania Mobile, if you end up watching this...
One of your staff members is...
Well...
I don't know if it's a regular thing but he definitely took advantage of me as a tourist.
And yeah, that's not cool.
Otherwise, everybody else here is fabulous.
In the airport I've had great experiences with everybody else here...
Just this one particular guy.
And, again, I've checked to make sure that I'm not mistaken,
I've asked other people in mobile shops how much I was charged
and they were literally shocked.
Even at the airport you'd expect a bit of a premium...
But this is just far too far, so...
Spoken to the locals, spoken to the people in this industry at other shops,
just to put it in perspective,
you can get 3 gigabytes of data for 180 rupees,
at least I did in the North, in Abbottabad.
But here they charged me...
I'll put the exact how much they overcharged me on the screen
so it's a bit more exact.
Anyway...
Time to leave Pakistan but I'm going to talk more about Pakistan in this video.
First I gotta get on a plane and leave Pakistan.
But then I'm going to talk more about this beautiful amazing country that I love.
This is not my feeling of the country.
This is one particular thing, keep that in mind,
I absolutely love this country.
MashaAllah...
Pakistan is absolutely beautiful.
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And just like that from the night sky over the top of Karachi
and the Indian subcontinent there,
all the way to suburban Hungary, here in Europe.
So I'm back in Europe.
If you've seen it, I put out a previous video explaining my current situation
because of the current situation that we all face...
Just been laying low here editing up the last of the Pakistan videos,
trying to keep saying, like all of you are doing,
in this unprecedented time that we all face.
So thank you for following along with the Pakistan videos, it was...
You know, one of my favorite trips, as I've just said.
I really love that country, it's got so much love in it.
At least I felt that way.
The country seemed to just be giving and giving,
and in so many different ways, you know?
And you've got the amazing landscapes...
And what really stuck out to me was the people.
The people there just open their arms to you
and just welcomed you into their world,
they're happy to have you there.
I just absolutely loved my trip in Pakistan.
I've probably said that about 7000 times in this video but...
I really want to emphasize it.
But yeah... I think it's sufficiently emphasized now.
I'm going to do one more video on Pakistan.
I'm going to need your help for that.
I'll explain how you can help me with that next video.
Just before we jump into that, I want to take a quick second out...
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In the next video I want to address some of your questions that you've brought up.
I'm going to post a photo on my Instagram, this photo...
So under this photo here, if you leave your questions,
anything related to Pakistan, my trip in Pakistan,
what you want to know...
Then just fire them into the comments section under this Instagram photo
and we will dive deeper next week into some more finer details of Pakistan.
I'll leave talking for next week, I'll finish the video here.
And I just want to say thank you to everybody in Pakistan who made my trip so memorable.
Thank you to Shahbaz and Babar,
you guys are heroes in my mind,
you really helped me get to places and talk to people
that I wouldn't otherwise been able to.
Also a big thank you to everybody who's watched any of my Pakistan videos,
really appreciate the support.
And in case I don't see you...
Good afternoon, good evening and good night.
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