Last Friday, Qaiser (my collegue and translator) and I went for a little motorbike ride after finishing early with the work in one of our research villages. We just followed the road and enjoyed the countryside as we headed west into Jhang District.
Thanks to it's irrigation system (combined, the irrigation systems of the Indian and Pakistani parts of Punjab are the biggest in the world), Punjab is a very green Province. Before this system was built, the area around Faisalabad was known for its dust storms.
As we travelled away from the city area, we entered a very different Punjabi world. Houses made of mud, people riding on horses, a checkpost at a village where cars were stopped to pay a fee (Qaiser said he hadn't seen this for a very long time) but also some new health centres and schools. As the sun sank lower, Qaiser recommended heading back as he doesn't consider the area safe after sunset (roadside robbers).
Last Friday, Qaiser (my collegue and translator) and I went for a little motorbike ride after finishing early with the work in one of our research villages. We just followed the road and enjoyed the countryside as we headed west into Jhang District.
Thanks to it's irrigation system (combined, the irrigation systems of the Indian and Pakistani parts of Punjab are the biggest in the world), Punjab is a very green Province. Before this system was built, the area around Faisalabad was known for its dust storms.
As we travelled away from the city area, we entered a very different Punjabi world. Houses made of mud, people riding on horses, a checkpost at a village where cars were stopped to pay a fee (Qaiser said he hadn't seen this for a very long time) but also some new health centres and schools. As the sun sank lower, Qaiser recommended heading back as he doesn't consider the area safe after sunset (roadside robbers).
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