Dust and dust storms are all that one sees in Awaran. When the haze clears, it is only to reveal abject poverty, lawlessness, an utter lack of governance and, of course, the death and destruction caused by the recent earthquake. This is one of the most neglected parts of Pakistan’s most neglected province, and the fruits of that neglect are bitter indeed.
Some journalists call Awaran ‘the hotbed of the biggest insurgency in Pakistan’, with the army and separatists being the ‘real’
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