Exploring Sufi shrines in Afghanistan (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
Protesting in Pakistan (Zia Ur Rehman)
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
— Rumi
Religious leaders in Pakistan came out this week to protest Taliban attacks on Sufis and their shrines, after several Sufis were murdered earlier this month in Karachi. When I was surveying Sufi shrines in northern Afghanistan, members of the Taliban were no longer stopping Afghan pilgrims from visiting shrines like the one above–however, in other pockets of Afghanistan and Pakistan, it’s an entirely different story…
