Updated On: 07 September, 2013 07:02 AM IST | | Fiona Fernandez
What does it mean to be a Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Parsi or a Baha'i in Pakistan? Journalist Haroon Khalid's A White Trail is a pathbreaking attempt to read between the lines of the many religious minorities who live in the country. With insightful accounts, he seeks to go beneath the socio-economic fabric of these lesser-known constituents of the population. Excerpts from an email interview with Fiona Fernandez
Deciding to embark on such a book must have invited plenty of challenges, opposition from naysayers and fear from your well wishers; how did you go about working on this book keeping in mind the obvious sensitivity of the subject?
One of the initial hindrances was my own predicament. I wasn’t sure if I should be talking about the religious minorities in such a candid manner. I was unsure if my writing about them would end up attracting unwanted attention towards them and hence, put them under threat.

Khalid while on his research trips