Pakistan’s Oldest Vice Goes to Market

Murree Brewery’s Push Into America Lays Bare the Contradictions at the Heart of an Islamic Republic

The address tells you something. Murree Brewery sits at 3 National Park Road, Chaklala Cantonment, Rawalpindi, a postal code that places Pakistan’s only legal producer of alcohol inside one of the country’s most guarded military zones. Forklifts carry cardboard boxes of beer past gates watched by soldiers of a state that bans Muslims from drinking. Over…