Works with no signal
Emergency lines that actually answer. What a rickshaw should cost. A translator you can hand to a shopkeeper. Built by students in Islamabad, and honest about everything it has not checked yet.
Open it once with signal and the page stays on your phone. In airplane mode, with no SIM, on a dead data plan, the numbers still dial, because phone calls do not need internet.
Speak in your language, and it speaks back in Urdu with a real voice. It stops listening when you stop talking, and shows large Nastaliq text for whoever is helping you.
Honest ranges for rides, food, SIMs and hotels, per city. Not quotes, and never presented as a guarantee, so you know the floor and the ceiling before you start.
Amazon does not deliver here and two ride apps you have heard of have left. We list what works today, and we check it rather than remembering it.
The founding rule
A travel-safety product is only as good as its honesty. One invented phone number, one pretend safety feature, and somebody trusts the wrong thing at the worst possible moment.
So every fact here carries a label saying how well we actually know it. Our first prototype had a button claiming your alert had been sent to the police. It sent nothing, so we deleted it instead of shipping it.
Every city where a visitor can land on a visa on arrival. A city is only marked live once its hospitals, pharmacies, exchanges and emergency lines have been confirmed by a person.
The capital and its twin city. Embassies, the calmest introduction to Pakistan, and the road north.
Early coverageMughal architecture, the country's best food, and the Wagah crossing. Denser and hotter than Islamabad.
Early coverageThe largest city and busiest airport. A port megacity: business, seafood, and the coast.
Early coveragePakistan's textile capital. Most foreign visitors here are buyers and mill clients rather than tourists.
Early coverageSports goods and surgical instruments for the world. A business destination with its own airport.
Early coverageCity of saints and Sufi shrines, with the blue-tiled kashi work the region is named for.
Early coverageOne of the oldest living cities in South Asia, and the gateway toward Swat and the Khyber Pass.
Early coverageThe northern valleys are next, and they need a different guide than a city does.
SafePak sits at the moment a visitor decides whether Pakistan feels navigable, which makes it useful to more than travellers. It produces an anonymous picture of what foreign visitors search for and fail to find, and that is evidence tourism strategy can be built on.