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Pakistan’s Final Frontier: The Smugglers’ Bazaar

Susan Blick went to Pakistan with mixed emotions.

Shits at the Ritz (1 of 2)

I was drunk. Not the slobbering ask-the-stewardess-to-marry-me kind of drunk, but sufficiently drunk to have trouble articulating myself or filling in a customs declaration form. But really, it wasn’t my fault, honestly. Things had begun to go wrong at Heathrow airport when I found out that not only had my flight been delayed but it [...]

The Millennium Trip – Letter #4

Locals here joke that the good thing about Islamabad is that it is only 15km from Pakistan. It isn’t hard to see why. With it’s tree lined streets and painted parking spaces, it’s invisible sewage systems and air-conditioned shopping malls it resembles nothing so much as a little piece of suburban South Africa, planted on [...]

The Millennium Trip – Letter #3

Salam all! Phew! After passing through the literal, internet and alcohol deserts of Iran and Baluchistan, have finally arrived here, in Quetta, South Western Pakistan (map). Ruins of Darius’ PalacePersepolis, Southern Iran The bus trip from Taftan, at the Irani border, to here is worthy of a page on its own. Suffice to say that [...]