I might just add, that from my own experience riding through Pakistan, I allways felt a lot more nervous when I did have an escort. The only sense of ill-will, bad feeling we got in nearly 2 mths of travelling in Nothern Pak, was when we arrived in places with our escort and my wife and I both agreed that the animosity we felt was directed more towards them than us, we also felt that being part of an armed convoy made us a much more obvious and attractive target !
Personally, I suspect that it was probably the escort they were after, as attacks on security forces of one sort or another have been escalating for some time !
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