Meray Paas Tum Ho

Danish is a simple man with moral values of idealized Pakistani culture. He works as a government officer. His whole world revolves around his wife Mehwish and son Roomi (played Shees Sajjad Gul). Mehwish is a housewife with big ambitions that her husband is not able to fulfil. She has expensive taste and desires to be seen as an equal among her rich friend Anushey. Subsequently, Mehwish and Danish are invited to Anushey's brother's wedding, where she develops a liking for Shehwar, a rich businessman. This eventually develops into an extramarital relation due to his influence, flattery and attraction of his wealth. He even offers Mehwish a high position job in his office with a very high salary and added perks. Mehwish's son and husband disapprove of her job in his office as they suspect the extra marital relationship.

After some time, Mehwish leaves her husband and son and starts a new life with Shehwar. After almost six or seven months of a live-in relationship with Shehwar, she convinces him to marry her. On the day of their wedding, Shehwar's wife Maham arrives back to Pakistan. She is the sole owner of the wealth that Shehwar has under "Shehwar Chemicals". When she realizes that Shehwar was going to marry Mehwish, she slaps Mehwish tightly across the face and asks her to leave her house immediately. Subsequently, Shehwar Ahmad loses both his wealth and respect because of Maham who has him arrested for fraud, forgery and illegal transfer of funds. Mehwish is left all alone and is immediately kicked out of Maham's house with some cash to assist her.

When Mehwish visits Shehwar in jail he refuses to even acknowledge her and asks her to go away from his life and blames her for his misfortune. Mehwish has nowhere to go now because her ex-husband Danish sold his old flat. Using the money he received by selling his flat, he makes a bold move and invests most of it in the stock market and becomes rich over the course of these months.

During the course of these months Danish develops a friendly relationship with Roomi's teacher – Hania but she develops romantic feelings for Danish. She even proposes him as she fell in love with him but Danish does not reciprocate her feelings. Mehwish on the other hand contacts Danish's business partner- Salman for help. He is also a mutual friend of theirs from college. Through him she asks for Danish's forgiveness repeatedly and requests to meet him once. Danish sends her a message through Salman that he has forgiven her but he does not want to meet her. She even attempts suicide but Danish doesn't show any affection neither turns up to meet her at the hospital. Shehwar Ahmed's jail term is broadly defused by the media.

Maham forgives Shehwar and brings him home but demotes his post in the office from CEO to a minor executive. This doesn't go well with Shehwar and he realizes all of his mistakes. It is ambiguous if he leaves Maham, or if he complies with her conditions and decides to stay (in the scene, he is shown to knock on the trunk of his car, which can either indicate the driver to get ready to leave, or to open the trunk to remove his luggage and put it back inside). On the other hand, after being prodded by Roomi and Salman, Danish agrees on meeting Mehwish once in their old flat (she buys this with the money that Maham gave her). When he meets her after a cup of tea and some small talk he doesn't feel well and is suffocating. Upon leaving, he suffers a major heart attack due to facing her and all the grief of disloyalty that she gave him. He passes away in the hospital and Mehwish is left all alone for the rest of her life. Even her son primarily turns to Hania upon his father's death.

• 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 neighbour

• Savera Nadeem as Maham Shehwar ahmed
• 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 & sexism of the author Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar expressed through his participation in reality TV shows & drama both.[41]

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 to a character in the serial as "do take ki larki (second rate / worthless woman)" became famous among misogynists of Pakistan and severely criticized by feminists. Feminist Tahira Abdullah called out the wording judgmental, '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.[42] 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 the 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, Qamar called himself to be "the biggest feminist".[42][6] Pakistani actress Iffat Omar pointing out that the last episode of the serial poses questions over the double-standard Qamar-presented Pakistani conservative narrative that a Pakistani woman is expected and idealized for forgiving a husband's disloyalty as Maham, the wife of Shehwar Ahmad, who was involved in an extra-marital relationship, forgives him. On the other hand, lead protagonist Danish is shown to not be able to bear the extra-marital relation of his wife Mehwish but rather prefers death as sign of non-forgiving. Pakistani males' non-acceptance of spousal choices and at the same time, entitled Pakistani males expect forgiveness for their own behavior.[7]

In other debates Khalil-ur-Rahman Qamar also made other controversial statements like: "women should gang rape men if they want equality."; "Aurat March is a conspiracy of some 35 women who belong to a specific class."[42][6] Pakistani actress Iffat Omar responded back saying women do not ask equality to rape men but to redress patriarchal double standards & injustices towards fellow women.[7]

Later, some actors of the serial preferred to distance themselves from ensuing controversies.[43] Actress Rehmat Ajmal accepted that she stumbled a little since she was not aware enough about how the TV serial will come out on the screen, and that she necessarily does not endorse controversial views expressed by the writer Qamar.[44] Actor Adnan Siddiqui said that he understands the dialogues had problematic leanings and he wished drama could have been more nuanced in depiction of women.[45]