By Sahar Ahmed
KARACHI (Reuters Life!) - Pakistan's largely lawless border with Afghanistan isn't the sort of place most people associate with creativity, but two sisters are making sure the region's talented women get the recognition they deserve.
Australians Cath and Ange Braid, a fashion designer and an artist, set up "Polly and Me," a company that works with women from the remote village of Chitral, beneath the Hindu Kush, to create embroidered pieces that sell for thousands of dollars and which were featured in Vogue magazine.
There were tapestries and woven bags that showed the contents of one woman's kitchen; others depicted children playing, a mother with her daughter, laundry day, even a young woman's dream of becoming a pilot.
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