How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics
Some time before she became feature news in Pakistan, Cynthia Dawn Ritchie was essentially a traveler. In 2009, Ritchie, an American lady living in Houston, Texas, went on an outing to Karachi, the rambling megacity in southern Pakistan. At that point, Pakistan was plagued by fear based oppressor brutality, and the movement counsel of most western nations could be summed up as “don’t go”. However, Ritchie had been convinced by companions who knew the city. “My Pakistani companions said: ‘Cynthia, you’ve voyaged a significant part of the world, however you haven’t been to Pakistan, why not come?’ I resembled: ‘Sure, why not?’,” Ritchie advised me. » Read more