I’m going to bed soon, but your post begs the question; what made you seek that “tourist destination”, had you seen everything else in the world?
I was traveling around Asia for fun and adventure. I was in western China and I wanted to go to Nepal so I went overland through Pakistan and India. At the time relations were petty good between Pakistan and the U.S. (Reagan was President. The Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan and we were supporting the resistance to that invasion with much of that support flowing through Pakistan.) Since I was passing through Pakistan, I decided to have a look around. Beautiful land; interesting but majorly screwed up people. The Pakistanis were actually something of a relief after China because there was private enterprise everywhere so you could get what you wanted (food, shelter, transport) much more easily. My overwhelming impression was that Pakistan was a lot of trouble waiting to happen. Now when anyone talks of our "alliance" with Pakistan I get a sinking feeling. We will always have many enemies in that part of the world no matter what. They are designed from the ground up to abhor us.