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Highway to the Hidden Valleys
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English / 52 min. )
Country : UK
Production Co. : Farthest North Productions, TVE
Producer/Director : Paul Cleary |
When China and Pakistan cemented their strategic
alliance in the early 1970s by building the Karakorum
highway, centuries of isolation in the valleys of northern
Pakistan were shattered. Ruled for decades by the Mirs,
or feudal princes, the people had long survived by a
precarious agricultural system which began to
disintegrate after 1972. The Aga Khan Rural Support
Programme, established in 1983, has now helped set up
over 2,000 village organisations to oversee new
projects from irrigation to food preservation But, as Paul
Cleary’s film makes clear, progress has also brought
tensions. The road is exacting demands from the people
of Gilgit, Hunza and Narag as surely as their feudal
lords once did, remorselessly changing patterns of life
established over centuries.
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