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The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Problem

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Chenab Nagar, Pakistan

14/09/2018 GMT

Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Problem

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Problem

A controversial appointment that shed light on Pakistan's Amaddiyya community.

Pakistan's Ahmadiyya; My Home Town Dobromyl; plastic surgery tourism; Sea Prayer in translation; Nepali dog chew; Hong Kong's Filipina Beauty Pageants.  With David Amanor.

Last week Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, appointed a renowned Pakistani economist to an advisory economics panel.  But Professor Mian is also a member of the Ahmadiyya religious community, which many Muslims consider to be sacrilegious.  Following protests he resigned.   So why do the Ahmadiyya stir such passions in Pakistan?  BBC Urdu's Khalid Karamat explains.

My Hometown: Dobromyl
BBC Ukraine’s Irena Taranyuk takes us to her home town in Western Ukraine, a place of secrets and faded glory. 

Plastic surgery tourism
Turkey has become a centre for cut price hair transplant operations, with holiday packages throwing in sightseeing too.  It's a big business, and neighbouring Iran already is apparently keen to get a slice of the action too.   Ehsan Amertousi from BBC Persian, and Enis Seneredem from BBC Turkish tell us more.

Translating Sea Prayer 
Sea Prayer is a new short story by Khaled Hosseini.  Set on a beach as a Syrian father waits with his son for a boat to arrive the book is being published in the main languages of Hosseini's home country, Afghanistan.  The BBC's Najiba Laima Kasraee and Fawad Massiha did the Pashto and Dari versions.

Nepali dog chews
“Churpi” is a hard, chewy dairy snack popular among Nepalis.  It’s found a surprising new market overseas, but not for humans: for dogs.  BBC Nepali’s Rama Parajuli has been getting her teeth stuck into the story.
 
Hong Kong's beauty queens
Filipinas working as domestic staff in Hong Kong have Sundays off, but instead of relaxing many choose to enter beauty pageants specifically created for Filipina maids.  Tzuwei Lui from BBC Chinese met one to find out why 

Image: A man cries as he prays at the graves of victims killed in attacks against Ahmadiyya community mosques in 2010.
Credit: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

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