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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from...
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Discusses the geography, climate, population, plants and animals, history, religion, culture, and future of Pakistan.
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Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code-a letter that could only have been written recently. Aasmaani is thirty, single, drifting from job to job. Always left behind whenever Samina followed the Poet into exile, she had...
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This film explains how the Pakistani Taliban is related to the Afghan Taliban and the threat it presents to the Pakistani state. The filmmakers have rare access to South Waziristan where the Pakistani military has tenuously taken control from the Taliban. They examine the military's efforts to rebuild the region so people can return following the devastation of its campaign there, probe local attitudes about the Taliban and Pakistan's military, and...
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"This documentary follows the story of Saba, a young woman from the Punjab region of Pakistan, who was shot and left for dead by her father and uncle after marrying Qaiser, a man once promised to her by her family. Told through the lens of a true love story, the film is a scathing examination of the contradictions between modernism and tradition within Pakistani society, as Saba struggles with pressures to "forgive" the relatives who tried to kill...
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"This extensively expanded and updated edition of the Historical Dictionary of Pakistan covers the nation's history through a chronology, list of acronyms and abbreviations, introductory essay, bibliography, and nearly 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries presenting important people, places, and events, as well as salient aspects of economy, society, culture, and religion."--Jacket.
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The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love...
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Being gay is illegal in Pakistan. But, despite this, the country has a growing gay scene. So why are gay rights not being addressed here? This is a complicated place, where homosocial behavior, like men holding hands, is common and accepted. In this revealing journey to the country of his birth, presenter Mawaan Riswan talks to the people struggling to assert their sexuality against a complex backdrop. From the activists campaigning for gay rights...
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Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Pakistan) examines the political history of a country that, since 1947, seems to be prisoner to a conflicting geopolitical legacy that hampers political economic development. Political divide stems from antagonism with India, Afghanistan relations, changing alliances and internal Muslim conflicts. Using previously unseen archives and interviews, this film presents key historical figures, including Mohamed Ali Jinnah, General...
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When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
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As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
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To mark the one year anniversary of the devastating Pakistan floods, this special documents CBC reporter George Stroumboulopoulos' experiences in Pakistan. This trip marked the beginning of his work as the first Canadian Ambassador Against Hunger with the UN's World Food Program. The program highlights the severe, ongoing effects of last year's monsoon rains and captures a portrait of post-flood life in Pakistan. (27 minutes).
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The Indian Subcontinent is romantic, remote and mysterious. From the plains of Pakistan to the foothills of the Himalaya, from Northern India and Rajasthan to Tamil Nadu in the south, this vast melting pot of civilizations, religions, cultures and landscapes has seen some of the greatest artistic golden ages on earth. This series examines the Indus Valley civilizations, Tamil Nadu-land of the temples-and the Mughal Empire, three very different dynasties...
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"Born from a vision of political idealism, caught up in turmoil from its first day of independence, this is the tale of one nation's journey from the margins of history to the center of the world stage. Forced into the spotlight by the international fight against terror, Pakistan has become a global player and an acknowledged nuclear power; today, struggling to balance Western influences with internal demands, it stands poised at the very crosscurrent...
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If the polio virus was all but wiped out during the 1980s, why has Pakistan become a polio hotspot? And why are vaccinators risking their own lives to administer preventative drops? In Pakistan, Foreign Correspondent's Michael Edwards investigates why there is suspicion and hostility against the polio eradication program, which is being fanned by religious extremists including the Taliban.
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