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In this photograph taken on November 13, 2015, Band Major of Pakistan Desert Rangers, Muhammad Iqbal (C) conducts his team members before they mount on camels for a march in Moj Garh, some 100 kilometres east of Bahawalpur in Punjab Province. A haunting peal reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands reverberates across Pakistan's inhospitable Cholistan desert as what is believed to be the world's only camel-mounted military bagpipe band marches, noses in the air. The band, part of the Pakistan Desert Rangers, was formed last year after hundreds of animals went out of service, reduced by the latest military patrol vehicles to doing mere donkey's work before the "unique" idea to dress them in bunting and put bagpipers on their backs was born. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)
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