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Pakistan "Truth" Jay Dunn(25 images)
"Truth"

In early 2004, in the midst of uncertainty about everything, the terrible tangle of politics and fighting that seems to characterize our post 9/11 world, I went to a Muslim country in search of a bit of truth for myself, some fragment of a common humanity I could hold onto and treasure in times of doubt.

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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. Urdu script becomes part of a wall in the dilapidated center of Karachi's famous Sadaar Bazaar. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. Traffic nightmares in Karachi, Pakistan?s commercial capital, main port, and busiest city. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. Two young students take a break after school along one of Karachi's many bridges. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. River dwellers manage to eke out a living out near Karachi?s toxic and often dry waterways. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, North West Frontier Province, 2004. Visible support for Saudi Arabia's most elusive citizen finds a home along the Chitral highway in Pakistan's NWFP. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. A moment of peace during Thursday's weekly Sufi celebrations at Abdullah Shah Ghazi's shrine near Clifton Beach in Karachi. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Sehwan Sharif, 2004. At the banks of the Indus River, a boy struggles to put the morning's load of firewood on the family donkey. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. A set of graves is brightened by April irises in a field north of Chitral in Pakistan's NWFP. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. Evening prayer at the Shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, a Sufi saint renowned for the fervor of his disciples. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. At central Karachi's beautiful domed Defense mosque, a Muslim man concentrates during Friday prayers. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. Looking much like the heavy sack she is transporting, a woman waits for a ride. All-covering burqa are often seen in parts of Pakistan's NWFP. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. Qawwal means ?utterance,? in Urdu. In this uniquely passionate form of religious music, it is believed that the singer can channel the words of God through his voice. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. On the hand of a child, wedding henna, and a welcome from Tahkt-e Bhai, a close-knit town outside Peshawar. Behind high walls, the women could be heard celebrating separately. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. Along the rough road outside Chitral, the rugged beginnings of the Hindu Kush can be seen in the early morning. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Sehwan Sharif, 2004. A young man?s deadly pride and joy in the Sindhi desert. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. A waking dream, or only an expression. In a young Chitrali girl?s eyes, past and future side by side. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. Tirich Mir, at 7,705 meters, rises high above Chitral?s valley location in the NWFP. Locals braving the Hindu Kush cross into Afghanistan after a two-day hike from here. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. The matriarchal Kalash are one of the smallest remaining ethnic groups in Pakistan, numbering less than 5,000 in three main NWFP villages. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. Three generations of the Lal family, based in Birir, one of the three main Kalash villages in Pakistan's NWFP. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. Traditional building structures in the Kalash village of Birir. Each level utilizes common walls, floors and roofs, minimizing the use of materials necessary. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. One teacher and the entire student body of Birir stand proudly in their brand-new school building, constructed with Kalash community development funds and local labor. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. The forbidding foothills of the Hindu Kush lock in the three main Kalash villages for periods up to five months a year. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004.  As young Kalash women, Masran and Farida will have considerably more freedom that their Pakistani Muslim counterparts when they grow up. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Northwest Frontier Province, 2004. The NWFP is considered mountainous desert, and can be cultivated successfully only with the help of irrigation. By photographer Jay Dunn
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  • Pakistan, Karachi, 2004. Led by a mullah, men and women pray together, an unusual practice, at this Sufi shrine overlooking the Arabian Sea. By photographer Jay Dunn
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