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City Girls Snub Traditional Hindu Face Tattoos In Pakistan

Six-year-old Pooja shows off her tattoos at the Jogi Colony, a Hindu-majority district in Umerkot, Pakistan (Credit: AFP)

Grinding charcoal with a few drops of goat's milk, 60-year-old Basran Jogi peers at the faces of two small Pakistani sisters preparing for their first tattoos.

The practice of elder women needling delicate shapes onto the faces, hands, and arms of younger generations stretches back centuries in the Hindu villages that dot the southern border with India.

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