In reality, certain areas of Pakistan can get colder than many European countries during the winters.
Areas of northern and western Pakistan are at very high altitudes that temperatures can fall to minus twenty degrees Celsius. In the Pakistani city of Quetta in the Balochistan province the average temperatures is minus fourteen which is comparable to winter temperatures in North American cities.
In the winters of 2007, the temperatures of Quetta were said to have fallen to minus seventeen degrees Celsius.
The Kashmir province of Pakistan, being far away from the equator and having a high altitude at the same time can bring temperatures as low as minus twenty degrees Celsius.
Even in warmer areas of Pakistan, temperatures can fall to less than ten degrees Celsius and with no indoor heating most of the time, it feels far colder.
I remember being in Skardu, Northern Pakistan during the summer of 1992 and people including Western tourists wore sweaters at night and sat around fires.
