Camel-mounted band rides high

Desert Rangers' contingent of military bagpipers, drummers stir national pride

A haunting peal reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands reverberates across Pakistan's inhospitable Cholistan desert. The nation's first camel-mounted military bagpipe band marches, noses in the air.

With scarlet and gold uniforms in sharp contrast to the dichromatic landscape of beige and green, the camels' tails switch in perfect rhythm.