[3] Pakistan comparatively has experience good immigration rate from Philippines despite security issues.

[citation needed] Many Filipino people entered Pakistan's commercial center Karachi illegally with fake passports and false identity cards as early in 1990s along with hundreds of Nepali, Bengals, Sri Lankans and Indians[4] however later deported.

[5] Many Filipinos in Pakistan are domestic workers, including the housemaids of high government officials and rich Pakistanis.

A small number of Filipinos studying Islam in the country is reported by the Philippines Embassy in Islamabad[6] while thousands of Muslim students from various Southeast Asian countries including Philippines illegally studying in the Pakistani Madrasahs.

[citation needed] In 2007, following a state of emergency declared by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, about 200 Filipinos gathered in Islamabad on the advice of Ambassador Jimmy Yambao to call for protest.