These 60-tonne yellow trucks are a familiar sight around Pakistan's largest open pit mine in the Thar desert. Usually driven by men, now the region's women are eyeing a road out of poverty by snapping up truck-driving jobs.
The imposing trucks initially daunted Gulaban, a housewife and mother of three from Thar's sizeable Hindu community inside the staunchly conservative and mainly-Muslim nation
She is among 30 local women being trained to be truck drivers by a Pakistani firm digging up low-g…
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