Skype says:
Set up your Caller ID to use your Skype Number.
That Caller ID isn't available for my country. I'm from Pakistan.
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First, being unable to set up caller ID to verify your account, though a condition for getting Skype Number and SMS to work, is not quite the same as "Skype Number doesn't accept SMS".
Secondly, I think you're misinterpreting the information on the Skype page you quoted. The message you quoted says "Caller identification using your Skype Number is available in..."
Note the emphasis on Skype Number.
It's using Skype Number as your Caller ID that is only available for the few countries listed, but you can verify and use your own local Pakistani mobile number as your Skype Caller ID, whether or not you have a Skype Number. Except for technical reasons, from a policy point of view, the only countries where this is not possible are China, Hong Kong, Japan and Mexico.
Further down the same page they state:
As of December 2018, if you purchase a Skype Number and don't have Caller ID enabled, your Skype Number will be automatically set as your Caller ID for the countries that this is available in.
The "this" in ["countries this is available in"] referring to using Skype Number as your caller ID.
So, if you want to go the Skype route...
1) Use your LOCAL Pakistani mobile number to setup Skype Caller ID
2) Then Purchase the US Skype Number
You should be able to receive SMS and calls on the US number within your Skype app, or forwarded to your Pakistani number (if you've set up call/SMS forwarding).
Remember Caller ID is only for OUTGOING calls and SMS. So the only downside to being unable to use your Skype Number as the Skype Caller ID (due to your location) is that when you call or send SMS to normal telephone numbers using your Skype credit, it's your local Pakistani number that people will see, and not the US Skype number. This has nothing to do with being able/unable to RECEIVE a call or SMS to verify Craigslist or some other online account, but if this an issue for you, use some other service like CallCentric.
At least that is my interpretation, and that's exactly what I did -- and the downside I have -- to get Skype number years ago (long before the Microsoft acquisition). In case you've not seen from my profile, I'm based in one of Trump's "shit-hole" countries.
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