White Liquor for the Karakoram Highway

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Midday, partly cloudy skies at the Khunjerab Pass. An armed Pakistani
guard stiffens, locks eyes with bus driver Ahmed and barks the official question
he's probably asked every driver who's ever crossed this remote area on the
China-Pakistan border.
"Are you carrying any baijiu?" the guard demands, twitching his thick mustache with a leathery lip and glaring through the open bus door.
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