Interesting travel and history account of the Indus River by a woman who travels in the regions of the river from Karachi, through Sindh and Punjab up to the Indus headwaters in Tibet. Her account includes trips into Afghanistan and India as well.
It is an interesting documentary of travel in an area that is not often crossed by Europeans, particularly recently and reveals an interesting area of the world where religious zealots have screwed the pooch for millions of people.
If you are wondering about what is happening in Pakistan and relying on the world news services, this would be a great background book. It is objective and gives an idea what it is like living and traveling through this region.
It reviews that many ethnic groups being assimilated, either forcefully or through attrition, into the greater Pakistani and Indian societies with little regard for the cultures lost.