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Free Thinking: Pakistan Politics, Water Supplies

Pakistan Politics, Water Supplies

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Samira Shackle, Ejaz Haider and Majed Akhter talk about Karachi, power, crime and energy.

Journalist Samira Shackle has tracked the lives of a Karachi ambulance driver, street school teacher and crime reporter. Majed Akhter researches dams. Ejaz Haider is a journalist.

In Karachi Vice, journalist Samira Shackle tracks the lives of a Karachi ambulance driver, street school teacher and crime reporter amongst others - and uses their story to map a history of different political groupings across the city and the recent decades. New Generation Thinker Majed Akhter from Kings College, London researches water shortages and dam building. Ejaz Haider is a journalist based in Lahore. They share their views of Pakistan with Rana Mitter. 

Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City by Samira Shackle is out now from Granta and has been a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week available to listen on BBC Sounds.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034wrq4 
Majed Akhter is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council which turns research into radio.  You can hear more about his work in a conversation with Dustin Garrick in an episode of Free Thinking called Rivers and Geopolitics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00051hb
Ejaz Haider is one of Pakistan’s most prominent journalists, writing for the Friday Times independent paper and presenter of a TV show.

In the Free Thinking archives we hear from novelists Neel Mukherjee, Preti Taneja, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam about their view of Partition
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090tnyp 
Kamila Shamsie discusses her novel Home Fire  
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095qhsm 
Philip Dodd explores Islam, Mecca and the Qur'an with professor of Islamic and interreligious studies Mona Siddiqui, and scholars Ziauddin Sardar and Navid Kermani            
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tcc1l


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