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Behind the scenes at a Karachi fashion show

Models and designers at Fashion Pakistan Week in Karachi have one message for the country's militants: "It's defiance, sheer defiance," says Rizwan Beyg, a leading designer who once dressed Diana, the late Princess of Wales.

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