The makeshift chairlifts that bring kids to school in remote, mountainous regions of Pakistan are a local solution to a common problem: the scarcity of roads and buses. Arifa Noor, a columnist for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, in Islamabad, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about how and why the jerry-rigged transport system sprung up.
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