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The other Pakistan

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

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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

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