Pakistan's Wild Frontier in 1977
Posted: September 28th, 2013, 9:51 am
From January 1977 edition of National Geographic.


Chitral



Nomadic group of Pathans called powindahs. After a spring of harvesting wheat in Punjab, the caravan passes the town of Miram Shah

Peshawar Fire Brigade truck vintage 1920's

Heroin being cultivated


Truck passing through a flooded road near Peshawar
Grain being moved by cable car across the River Chitral (right)

Fisherman in Swat

A group of Chitral shepherds and farmers

Left- Cramped marketplace in Chitral. Kalash girl (right)

Ammunition being made in Darra

Novelty weapon emporium in Darra.

A powindah boy rocking his nephew.

Defying the surroundings, a patch of wheat survives high in the gnarled mountains of D.I. Khan where farmers rely on irrigation canals stretching as far as ten miles from the water source.


Chitral



Nomadic group of Pathans called powindahs. After a spring of harvesting wheat in Punjab, the caravan passes the town of Miram Shah

Peshawar Fire Brigade truck vintage 1920's

Heroin being cultivated


Truck passing through a flooded road near Peshawar
Grain being moved by cable car across the River Chitral (right)

Fisherman in Swat

A group of Chitral shepherds and farmers

Left- Cramped marketplace in Chitral. Kalash girl (right)

Ammunition being made in Darra

Novelty weapon emporium in Darra.

A powindah boy rocking his nephew.

Defying the surroundings, a patch of wheat survives high in the gnarled mountains of D.I. Khan where farmers rely on irrigation canals stretching as far as ten miles from the water source.