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Example city, Pakistan · 5′ 4″
- EducationMBBS
- WorkDoctor
- StatusNever married
- SectSunni · Example biradari
What a rishta profile shows
Every field a member fills in, exactly as it appears to a family reading the profile — and the four things that are never shown to anybody, at any price.
Member profiles open once you sign in
Individual profiles are rendered only for a signed-in member, one at a time. They are never written into a public page and never handed out as a file. Registering is free.
A biodata, not a dating bio
A rishta profile is read by three people before it is read by one: the mother, the sister, and then the person themselves. So it is built the way a family actually asks — qualification, work, family, biradari, sect, city — and not the way a dating app asks.
Nothing on it is free text pretending to be a fact. Height, marital status, sect, biradari, residency status, employer type, income band and family type are all chosen from fixed lists, so a search on “Sunni, Rajput, never married, Lahore” returns the same answer every time rather than depending on how somebody typed it. The only field in the member’s own words is the last one, and phone numbers, emails and social media handles are stripped out of it automatically before it is published.
Your profile is reviewed by one of our rishta consultants after it goes live, and read again whenever you change something substantial. We are looking at whether the fields agree with one another, whether the written section is the family’s own words, whether the same person already holds an account, and whether anything on it is commercial or improper. What does not stand up is corrected with the member or taken down. It is a careful read by a person, not identity verification, and it is no guarantee that a member’s background or circumstances are as described — our quality page is clear about the difference.
Who can read a profile
Anybody can see the summary cards on the browse page, the city pages and the profile-type pages: identity number, bride or groom, age, height, city, education, work, marital status, sect and biradari. The full profile — family details, residency, income band, mother tongue, siblings, and what they have written about themselves — opens only for a signed-in member. Reading costs nothing.
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Never shown, to anyone
Full name. Profiles are identified by a code such as BM-PK-1204.
Email address. Never displayed, never passed on.
Exact address. Only the area or neighbourhood, never the house.
Date of birth. Age is calculated and shown; the date itself is not.
Shown only after the member agrees
Photographs and the WhatsApp number. These are the only two things behind a request, and the only person who can release them is the member.
Every field on the profile
Grouped the way the form asks for them. Fixed lists are given in full so you know exactly what you are choosing between before you start.
The basics
Bride or groom.
Date of birth — shown as age only.
Height, from 4′0″ to 6′11″.
Marital status — never married, married and seeking a second marriage, divorced, khula,
widowed, separated, annulled, or a broken engagement. Eight statuses, all listed on equal terms.
Children — none, one, two, or three and above.
Faith and biradari
Sect — Sunni, Shia, Other, or prefer not to say.
Caste or biradari — thirty-three to choose from, including Syed, Rajput, Jatt, Arain,
Awan, Gujjar, Butt, Sheikh, Qureshi, Mughal, Malik, Pathan, Baloch, Memon, Soomro, Niazi, Khattak,
Yusufzai, Abbasi, Afridi, Ansari, Bhatti, Chaudhry, Cheema, Gondal, Jatoi, Kashmiri, Khattar, Mirza,
Rao, Sial, Sheikh Siddiqui, and Other.
Hafiz-e-Quran — yes, partial, or no.
Mother tongue.
Where they live
Country and city, from the same lists the
city and country pages are built from.
Area or neighbourhood — shown as an area only, never a street or house.
Residency status — citizen, permanent resident, work visa, student visa or dependent
visa. For overseas families this is usually the first question asked and the last one answered, so
it is on the profile rather than left for a conversation.
Education and work
Highest qualification and field of study.
Occupation, chosen from 319 professions across twenty groups — surgeon, teacher,
welder, farmer, homemaker and everything between.
Employer type — private sector, government, self-employed, multinational, family
business, or not working.
Monthly income band — six bands from below Rs 80,000 to above Rs 600,000, plus
“prefer not to say”. This one can be hidden from the public profile entirely.
The family
Father’s and mother’s occupation.
Siblings, written plainly — “two brothers, one sister”.
Family type — nuclear or joint.
Family status — middle class, upper middle class, business class, or affluent.
In a rishta these are not small talk. They are the part both sides are quietly weighing, so they are
asked openly rather than discovered three meetings in.
In their own words
One open section: who they are, what matters to them, what their home is like, and what they are hoping to find. It is the only free-text field on the profile, and it is the one that decides whether a family writes to you.
Phone numbers, email addresses and social media handles are removed from it automatically. There is no way to publish a contact detail here and bypass the request system.
What a summary card looks like
This is the card format used on every city, country and profile-type page. It is an illustration — not a member.
What is on the card
The identity code, bride or groom, age, city and country, height, highest qualification, occupation, marital status, sect and biradari. Ten things — enough for a family to decide whether to look further, and deliberately not enough to identify anybody.
Why a code instead of a name
A name plus a city plus a profession is an identification. A code is not. Every member is referred to by their code right through the site, including in the emails we send, until they choose to share more.
What opens after you register
Mother tongue, residency status, children, income band, siblings, parents’ occupations, family type, family status, area, and the member’s own words.
And one thing more
A compatibility score against your own profile, built from nine signals — sect, biradari, country, city, mother tongue, education level, age gap, marital status and family type — with the matched ones named, so you can see why a profile scored the way it did.
Opening a real profile
Four steps, and only one of them costs anything.
1. Register and publish your own
You cannot read the full profiles without one. That is deliberate: a service where anyone can read everyone and nobody can be read back is a service families are right to distrust.
2. Browse and shortlist — free
Save profiles to your own list and show them to your parents before you do anything else. The other member is not told, and nothing is sent.
3. Request photographs — free
A photo request never spends a connection. If they accept, their photographs open for you; yours open for them only if they ask you separately and you accept in turn.
4. Request the WhatsApp number — one connection
A membership carries ten. One is held while the request is pending and returned in full if they decline or if it lapses unanswered after seven days. If they accept, both of you see each other’s number and the families carry on from there. There is no chat on ByahMe at any stage.
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Start from a narrower list
By city — Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, all cities.
By country — United Kingdom, United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, all 30 countries.
By biradari or work — Syed, Rajput, Doctor, Engineer, Overseas, Divorced, all 59 types.
One membership, one price
Publish a profile and read the whole database without paying anything until 14 November 2026. After that — Rs 3,000 for 90 days and 10 connections, with no auto-renewal.
Begin the search with your family beside you
Free to publish a profile during launch. Photographs and contact numbers stay yours until you decide otherwise.