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Boston Calling: Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart

02/05/2015

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, Worlds Apart

Meet the Pakistani activist fighting the Taliban, and igniting Pakistani students abroad

Meet the Pakistani activist fighting the Taliban, and igniting Pakistani students abroad.

We meet Jibran Nasir, a 28-year-old lawyer and civil rights activist from Pakistan, who is touring the United States to promote his message of anti-extremism. Then, we enter the world of high fantasy and talk with the author of a new book that creates an imaginary world to address the realities of our own world. And, we visit the Conjuring Arts Research Centre, a midtown Manhattan library for the wizards of New York.

Also, Americans weigh the merits of police body cameras. We look back at the fall of Saigon, 40 years ago. And, a brother and sister recall their abrupt start to a new life in America after they fled collapsing South Vietnam.

(Photo: Mohammad Jibran Nasir, a 28-year-old Pakistani lawyer turned civil rights activist. Courtesy of Mohammad Jibran Nasir)

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