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Flooded Street, Multan, Pakistan, 1981

Prone to flooding, the central Pakistani city of Multan comes to a virtual halt after a deluge, but a ubiquitous horse-drawn tonga taxi pushes on, past a less fortunate pedestrian.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Pakistan Under Pressure,” May 1981, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

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