| Pakistan has two natural assets. The first is its varied topography - the swamps and sands of Sindh, the arid dusty awning that covers a wealth of untapped minerals in Balochistan, the fertile midlands of the Punjab, the winding contours and sinister defiles of the North-West, and the dramatic prologue to the Himalayan range through the northern Areas. |
| The second natural asset Pakistan possesses is the gifted travel writer Salman Rashid. Many years ago, he abandoned the tarmac career path that would have led him vertically upwards within a multinational firm and instead took the lateral rockier road that led him to parts of Pakistan that saner Pakistanis fear to tread. [EXTRACT] |
Published in THE HERALD, November 2003. |
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