Meray Paas Tum Ho

Danish (Humayun Saeed) is a simple man with moral values of idealised Pakistani culture. He works as a government officer. His whole world revolves around his wife Mehwish (Ayeza Khan) and son Roomi. Subsequently his wife Mehwish gets in extra marital relation with a businessman Shehwar Ahmad (Adnan Siddiqui) getting under influence of his flattery & attraction of his wealth. But Mehwish's son & husband disapprove of her extra marital relationship. Subsequently businessman Shehwar Ahmad loses his wealth because of his wife who put him in jail hence he abandons Mehwish and Mewish has nowhere to go on the other side Danish sold his old flat and invest the money in stock market and became rich.

• Humayun Saeed as Danish Akhtar
• Ayeza Khan as Mehwish
• Adnan Siddiqui as Shehwaar Ahmed

• Hira Mani as Hania; Roomi's teacher
• Shees Sajjad Gul as Roomi; Danish's son[8]
• Mehar Bano as Anushey; Mehwish's friend
• Hina Javed as Wateera; Hania's sister
• Mohammad Ahmed as Mateen; Danish's colleague, Hania's father
• Furqan Qureshi as Salman; Danish's friend
• Rehmat Ajmal as Aisha; Danish and Mehwish's friend, Salman's wife
• Musaddiq Malik as Monty; Danish and Mehwish's neighbor

• Savera Nadeem as Maham Syed
• Shamim Hilaly as Roomi's school principal
• Anoushay Abbasi as Ifra; Monty's wife
• Waseem Lashari as Anti corruption officer

The TV drama serial was received in Pakistan's feminist circles with skepticism & reservation.[38][39] Specially the script writer got criticized for his misogynist views. Author Aisha Sarwari says drama convinces audience that it is okay to slur at and slut shame materialistic women, and this double standard is morally questionable since Pakistani society in general & bridegrooms in particular are known for dowry seeking and can not claim high moral ground vis a vis materialistic women.[39][40] While actually Pakistan is known for acid attacks, domestic violence, serious levels of honor killings of women even at suggestion of freedom of choice. Sarwari says sadly depiction is falsified far from real life and one won't find even in 1000 km of South Asia any very positive, patient and giving protagonist as depicted in the drama.[39] Sarwari believes that this kind of content trends in Pakistan since there is lack of actual better actual life characters than this in Pakistan society.

Afiya S. Zia not only criticizes the author for his sexist views but also criticizes content of family drama scripts dished out by Pakistani Television channels since last 20 years as advice literature of digest authors as writing such content which rather than questioning, normalizes & internalizes injustices to women in Pakistan in garb of piety, modesty, and religious agency preaching lessons to women to submit themselves and continue to remain subservient to a male dominated patriarchy of Pakistan.[38] Afiya S. Zia says the TV series presentation creates a false narrative that Pakistani patriarchal family structure do take care of all family members equally, practically which is far from the truth rather Pakistani women are meted out with discrimination and violent backlash for demanding their sexual freedoms.[38]

Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar entered into altercations with Pakistani feminist Marvi Sirmed over slogans in Aurat March on International Women's Day including Mera jism meri marzi during a television debate in March 2020.

Quite a few placards in Aurat March on International Women's Day 2020 were critical of misogyny.

Some of the dialogues in the TV serial and some of the later statements of Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar invited debate controversies from liberal and feminists in social media and mainstream media both.[7][6]

One of the TV serial dialogue refers protagonist character in the serial as "do take ki aurat (second rate / worthless woman)" became famous among people of Pakistan and severely criticized by feminists. Feminist Tahira Abdullah called out the wording judgemental, Tahira says it's not for any one to judge a woman good or bad based on woman's loyalty; respect and dignity is woman's right not dependent on anyone else's willingness.[41] Just by being a woman she deserves to be treated human born equal to not beg but claim equal rights. Women do not need men to define standards of behavior for women and categorize who is good or bad woman, referring to famous utterance of Qamar that women by definition are modest & loyal and those who are not modest and loyal do not deserve to be called women at all. In the same debate Qmar called himself to be "the biggest feminist".[41][6] Pakistani actress Iffat Omar pointing out at last episode of the serial poses question over double standard Qamar presented Pakistani conservative narrative that, a Pakistani woman is expected and idealized for forgiving husband's disloyalty as Maham the wife of extra-marital affair involved Shehwaar Ahmed forgives him, same time lead protagonist character of Danish is shown to not able to bear extra marital relation of his wife Mehawish.

Latter couple of actors of the serial preferred to distance themselves from ensuing controversies.[42] Actress Rehmat Ajmal accepted she stumbled a little since she was not aware enough how the TV serial will come out on the screen, and that she necessarily does not endorse controversial views expressed by the writer Qamar.[43] Actor Adnan Siddiqui attempting to sound politically correct said that he understands the dialogues had problematic leanings and he wished drama could have been more nuanced in depiction of women.[44]

It won seven awards in PISAs:

• Best TV Play-Mere Paas Tum Ho
• Best TV Director-Nadeem Baig
• Best TV Actor-Humayun Saeed
• Best TV Actress-Ayeza Khan
• Best TV Writer-Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar
• Best TV Critics Actor-Adnan Siddiqui
• Best Original Soundtrack