In Pakistan’s tribal areas, alcohol bootleggers, lured by enormous profits, have created clandestine delivery services to evade recent crackdowns by the Taliban and the police.

 

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

This 2010 New York Times video shows in a poignant way how the past and the present, the global and the local comibine to create underground cultural practices among the wealthy in Pakistan. 

Tags: Pakistan, popular culture, SouthAsia, globalization, culture, Islam.

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