Ornate Trucks Rule the Roads in Pakistan

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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Much larger than life, Miss World 1994 serenely gazes from a truck's back gate as body shop artisans busily create the garish decorations that adorn the semis and other big vehicles that haul Pakistan's goods to market.

All along the country's roads, big trucks sport aluminum trim, bells, reflective tape of many hues and intricately painted tableaux - such as the oversized, placid visage of Aishwarya Rai, the former Indian beauty queen who is a Bollywood icon.

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Ornate Trucks Rule the Roads in Pakistan

Like the purple sunsets airbrushed on a 1970s van in the United States or the running lights and spinning hub caps of a gangsta rapper's ride, Pakistani trucks are a pe...

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