About
In 2019 I went to Pakistan with my family. This trip was different in that it was the first time I had ever left Lahore: the city where my father grew up. We went to the north to a city called Hunza. It was unlike any place I had been to. While my eyes feasted on immense vistas of natural beauty there was an undercurrent of geopolitical happenings. It was close to the Kashmiri border where tensions with India always ebbed and flowed. It was also close to the Chinese border where a single gate connects the two nuclear nations. In 2010 an earthquake shook the region and cut off a village from the rest of the world. The Pakistani and Chinese government worked to rebuild the area as part of the Belt & Road initiative which in turn continues to shape the rest of the nation and the millions of people thousands of miles outside the largest mountains on earth.