*eyeing you suspiciously* So why do you show up on terrorism threads, boy?
OK, leaving the snide remarks aside...
I was there on my way to Tibet. At that time Pakistan was probably one of the more western oriented and safe (relatively speaking) places in a very unsafe part of the world.
Pakistan has probably changed a lot since I passed through there. The further north we came the more orthodox (today we should say radical) Islam was practiced. But we were treated very kindly by the locals. (Except that one of local Mukhtars wanted to buy one of our female companions - her rather wide girth made her into a Pakistani Marilyn Monroe. That did cause somewhat of a problem.)
Islambad/Rawalpindi was much more secularized. I remember the first day we visited the large mosque there. We did not dare to show our cameras, not to offend the locals. But we should not have bothered. They came up to us and wanted to be photographed together with us!
But, but..I have pictures (taken stealthily) of Afghans in black turbans at the local airport. The name Taliban was not known at the time, but that’s probably what they were. They were the only group we met who were definitely anti-western.