What are your safety concerns about Pakistan and India? There is a small risk of separatist violence in Kashmir but is still a major tourism destination. As mentioned above driving standards are interesting but similar to what I encountered in Istanbul, Thessaloniki, and Tehran. As a solo female traveller I experienced hassle in India but managed to shrug most of this off, the men that hassled me were not a patch on the Turkish men that hassled me, spiked my drinks and grabbed me.
Pakistan, we all know that passing from Iran into Pakistan is dodgy through Baluchistan, and up the KKH there are places where you need to ride in convoy with the local cops, but I wouldn't write off the whole country because of one region. There have been more people killed in London terrorist attacks than tourists on the KKH in a decade. Doesn't mean I avoid London.
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