Why Are There So Many Pakistanis In Texas?

The suburb of Sugar Land, on the outskirts of Houston, is home to a thriving Pakistani community. The scenes at strip malls are equivalent to what you might find in cities like Karachi or Lahore, but they now exist in Texas. So how did so many Pakistanis end up in Houston in the first place? AJ+’s Tabish Talib traveled to southeast Texas and learned it had a lot to do with the Cold War and U.S. propaganda.

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