A three-part series documentingthe new challenges facing powerful, well-established family in Pakistan.
The Birthright. An elite of old families has held the balance of wealth and political influence in Pakistan since
1947, when it became an independent country. Abida Hussain is matriarch of one of those 500 families. Both she and her husband are politicians and landowners in the Punjab, the country's richest region.
But the loyalty of the peasants who live on their land is in question, sectarian Muslim tensions threaten order and the subdivision of land to offspring diminishes its value. The birthright of wealth, religious status and political power is uncertain. Narrated by Roshan Seth.
Producer FarisKermani Stereo