• 2 months ago
'Love match' apps rival traditional matchmaking in Pakistan

Pakistan's traditional matchmakers play a revered role in molding daughters into potential brides, but marriage apps marketing themselves as halal are offering women a new route to finding a husband.

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Transcript
00:00It's such an open suit.
00:05Drama boss.
00:06Action check.
00:07Action check.
00:28When I saw my colleague,
00:30he is very happy.
00:32He is from a very good family.
00:37He has a daughter.
00:39When I saw him,
00:41his life is going well.
00:44Then I said,
00:46where you have tried the relationship for so long,
00:504-5 years,
00:51let's try this one too.
01:02These are the ladies who have GPS.
01:05The one and only Miswari from Islamabad.
01:14They give you all these sorts of tick marks
01:17that they say before you meet a family,
01:19that okay, don't say this to them,
01:21don't say this to them,
01:22don't tell them that your hobbies are probably hiking
01:25or taking pictures, right?
01:27Tell them that your hobbies are cleaning or cooking
01:29and stuff like that.
01:31It makes you a very inauthentic person.
01:34You are just not being yourself.
01:36You are being this version that they want you to be.
02:01The first reaction is,
02:02I met her through a dating app.
02:04Okay.
02:05So, the mentality of boys,
02:07first of all,
02:08we have to think bad of everyone.
02:10This is the mentality of boys,
02:12that they have to think bad of everyone first.
02:14So, that's why we don't tell anyone.

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