InDriver isn’t safe for women in Pakistan. InDriver, the international ride-hailing service with over 100 million users worldwide, has become Pakistan’s most downloaded app for hiring cars by passengers.
Launched in the country in early 2021, inDriver connects drivers and passengers, and allows them to independently agree on all the terms of each trip, told Ms. Sidra Kiran, the Company’s Communications Manager in Pakistan. However, the recent incident shared through tweets shows that indriver isn’t safe for women in Pakistan. The incident shared was as follows:
“So the other day my sister was with her friends at Coco Cubano Lahore and it was 11:30 ish PM at night after she got free from dinner, she booked a Suzuki WagonR as a ride on @inDriverApp for herself and it arrived after 11 minutes.
When she went out on the road, there wasn’t any WagonR but a man sitting in a black Prado was waiting outside. She stood there and called the driver again but the number was switched off, she received a call from another number and he said ‘I’m your Indrive driver.
Please come outside.’ she told him that there was only a Parado outside, the man inside the Parado brought it and parked it in front of her and told her not to worry and just sit inside with him as his brother had taken the other car and thus he brought the Parado.
Now the man sitting in the car looked nothing like the guy she had chosen as her driver on the app and the car had tinted windows and looked suspicious so she refused to go with him. She went inside the restaurant again as she became scared.
And for the next 30 minutes, the man kept waiting outside even though she asked him to cancel the ride. She called a friend and then they dropped her. This is just a heads up guys that this has been happening around and please don’t fall for such tactics (especially women)”.
InDriver isn’t safe for women in Pakistan, check Tweets:
Story time: So the other day my sister was with her friends at coco cubano lahore and it was during 11:30 ish PM at night and after she got free from the dinner, she booked a Suzuki WagonR as a ride on @inDriverApp for herself and it arrived after 11 minutes.
— Rida Baloch (@ridabaloch_) January 31, 2023
InDriver was not just competitive when it came to city rides, but had some of the most attractive offers on intercity rides as well. A passenger could pay as little as Rs 2500 for traveling from Karachi to Hyderabad and Rs 1500 for traveling from Lahore to Islamabad in a private car.
Reported by Rida Baloch
