When a Karachi student returning from Iran became Pakistan’s first documented case of Covid-19, the government quickly moved to quarantine thousands of Shia pilgrims at the remote outpost of Taftaan on the Iran-Pakistan border. But Pakistan’s pandemic response soon stumbled in the resource-poor periphery of the borderland. Read the InAsia blog: https://asiafoundation.org/2020/09/30/podcast-the-crisis-and-the-cracks-pakistans-covid-19-experience-at-taftaan/