Lahore PAKISTAN - 8 mars 2010
"Bring it home" told a guy I met while strolling through this city of Punjab not far from the Indian border, after I took the photo. In a country being a former British colony where most western & japanese tourists are quite welcome, somehow many english, australian or american denizens, or even Indians seem more "invisible".
Some 'soi-disant' tourists I met, decided promptly on arrival to adopt the local dress-code, and let grow their beards. Many of them were in transit to or from Iran, or China in my case.
At the same time two consecutive issues of the american magazine Newsweek found in store in Islamabad & Lahore, questioned in very offensive/provocative terms the legitimity of some local religious groups, with Fareed Zakaria advocating the war against the Jihad, and the relevance of the action of the US forces & government, and their support to the policies of diverse (corrupted) governments in the Middle-East, and eventually in Pakistan.
When spending a few months there, and in regard to the concerns & major problems, frustrations of many Pakistanis, this kind of western journalism sometimes enhanced by a part of the local press, seems quite surrealistic.
Consequently, this quiet & peaceful demonstration (even with a banner bearing the word war) sound quite remote from what most people in the world think about when one evoke Pakistan.
The cliche was taken during a 3 km long "parade" of farmers, demonstrating with their trucks & tractors. The demonstration happened just after a small gathering of women (probably less than an hundred) trying to expose hopelessly something about their situation in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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"Bring it home" told a guy I met while strolling through this city of Punjab not far from the Indian border, after I took the photo. In a country being a former British colony where most western & japanese tourists are quite welcome, somehow many english, australian or american denizens, or even Indians seem more "invisible".
Some 'soi-disant' tourists I met, decided promptly on arrival to adopt the local dress-code, and let grow their beards. Many of them were in transit to or from Iran, or China in my case.
At the same time two consecutive issues of the american magazine Newsweek found in store in Islamabad & Lahore, questioned in very offensive/provocative terms the legitimity of some local religious groups, with Fareed Zakaria advocating the war against the Jihad, and the relevance of the action of the US forces & government, and their support to the policies of diverse (corrupted) governments in the Middle-East, and eventually in Pakistan.
When spending a few months there, and in regard to the concerns & major problems, frustrations of many Pakistanis, this kind of western journalism sometimes enhanced by a part of the local press, seems quite surrealistic.
Consequently, this quiet & peaceful demonstration (even with a banner bearing the word war) sound quite remote from what most people in the world think about when one evoke Pakistan.
The cliche was taken during a 3 km long "parade" of farmers, demonstrating with their trucks & tractors. The demonstration happened just after a small gathering of women (probably less than an hundred) trying to expose hopelessly something about their situation in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
(check the PREVIOUS POSTS)
