Culture and history

Historically, colonial practices (horse racing, lotteries, sweepstakes) and household card/board games (carrom, ludo, rummi), not necessarily related to money, coexisted in modern Pakistan.

With the formation of the state, the religious and legal norm, which considers excitement as forbidden, intensified - this set the cultural vector for family leisure and sports without bets.

In popular culture, football and especially cricket are strong; betting talk around matches is present in urban folklore, but there is no legal betting, and clandestine practices are the subject of enforcement.

As a result, a dual heritage was entrenched in the public mind: the memory of colonial formats under the dominant model of moral and legal prohibition today.