[Leica] IMG: Hello from Pakistan

[hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson)]

Wendy - that's right.  They don't drive with lights off here in  
Islamabad, but when I visited my daughter in Cairo in 2002, most cars  
drove with the lights off at night .......... so as not to drain the  
battery!

Hugh

On 5-Nov-09, at 11:24 AM, Wendy Thurman wrote:

> Sounds much like Afghanistan.  Of course, here the Pakistani lorry  
> in all
> it's decorated finery is a deadly piece of machinery when over- 
> loaded as
> normal and driven on mountain roads with poor brakes.
>
> I've spent a little time in Kuwait (a place best avoided) and heard  
> that a
> very large percentage of traffic accidents there are fatal due to  
> extreme
> high speed desert driving- often with the lights off!