Ten years of the US-led war in Afghanistan has drastically transformed Pakistan’s trucking industry...
Pakistan's trucking industry, which has undergone a boom in recent years due to the increased demand from the US and NATO troop presence in Afghanistan, supports more than just truckers. In Shireen Jinnah Colony, a major transportation hub in the port city of Karachi, thousands of craftsmen and merchants depend on the trucking industry for their livelihood. When, in late 2011, Pakistan suspended the NATO supply route over an errant US airstrike that killed 24 of its soldiers, the neighborhood fell into a deep recession.
