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I have no idea whether or not any local law or regulation was being breached.
If any relevant “Occupational Health and Safety” rules were notionally applicable, Lahore’s employers and employees were obviously well aware that such rules were notional, only.
One would never see a working person carry such an enormous load – in full public view – on any Australian street.
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For those whose shopping list contains just two very particular items – each utterly unlike the other – the pictured street vendor is their one-stop shop.
The bearded gentleman was selling only three products.
One was packaged in boxes: it kills rodents.
Another was “loose”; the dried plant-parts are “medicinal” – allegedly beneficial to humans’ health and life expectancy.
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This post’s “bird men” are not selling birds to “benevolent” customers; in this case the feathered captives have zero chance of being freed.
These “bird men” are in the tourism/entertainment business.
In every sense, Lahore Fort is the “big one” among the walled city’s architectural/artistic gems.
It sprawls across 20 hectares; one of its various “Mughal heritage treasures” is the world’s biggest picture wall/mural.
Inevitably, a few non-heritage, merely-opportunistic “attractions” have inserted themselves into this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Cruelty. Benevolence. Illegal. Tolerated. Prosecuted. Unpunished. Accepted. Condemned. Caged. Freed. Virtue. Wrongdoing.
Q: which of the above words apply to the way in which this post’s pictured persons earn their living?
A: all of them…and it is a very safe bet that none of the pictured persons are wealthy.
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Lahore’s walled city contains some truly extraordinary “built heritage”; two of its mosques ought be on any globetrotter’s “bucket list” and its fort is one of “our” planet’s grandest.
This “old city” is, however, neither a “museum” nor a “theme park”.
Most of it is very “real”, complex, busy and not-immaculate – an urban place in which many people live, work, shop.
It will surprise any visiting westerner who had preconceived Pakistan as a “forbidding” or “unfriendly” destination, and/or as one in which only males are highly-visible, in public.
On Lahore’s streets, adult women are abundantly present, most of them do not hide their faces, and it is not the least bit unusual to see an obviously-confident woman, venturing out in her own right, unchaperoned.
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