Pakistani Family Fights Tradition of ‘Swara’ – women’s rights, honor killings

Published on Dec 6, 2012 by VOAvideo
In recent years Pakistan has passed laws protecting women against having acid thrown on their faces or being killed to satisfy the honor of a family. Despite being legally banned, abuses against women continue. However, there are stories of individuals who stand up when the law fails them. Sharon Behn reports from Peshawar on one family whose father died trying to prevent their daughter from being given away to settle a dispute.

More Afghan Opium May Mean More Pakistani Addicts

Published on Nov 28, 2012 by VOAvideo
In addition to economic challenges and insurgent violence, analysts say Pakistan is facing a growing drug problem that is likely to worsen after international troops leave neighboring Afghanistan, the world’s leading opium producer. The opium and derivatives come to Pakistan from neighboring Afghanistan. Sharon Behn reports on the impact that narcotics, which are easily available, are having on Pakistani society.

Report: Child Mortality Drops — But Not Enough

Published on Sep 13, 2012 by VOAvideo

new report — released jointly by three U.N. agencies and the World Bank — says that despite progress by health programs worldwide in reducing infant mortality, prospects remain dire: a child still dies every five seconds somewhere in the world. The new report calls for renewed international commitments to child survival. VOA’s Vidushi Sinha has more.

Fashion Meets Art on Pakistani Catwalk

Published on Sep 12, 2012 by VOAvideo

Few women go out in Pakistan without being fully covered in traditional dress. But VOA’s Sharon Behn reports from Islamabad on how two women in this Muslim country are combining modern art and a taste for high fashion to create a new fusion of wearable art in Pakistan.

Pakistani political satire becomes internet sensation

Previously unknown Pakistani pop band, Beygairat Brigade and their satirical single “Aalu Anday” (egg and potatoes) have become an internet hit after skewering all aspects of Pakistani society, from politics to the military.

The single, named for an egg and potato dish served in Pakistani homes without meat, takes aim at notorious killers such as Mumtaz Qadri and Ajmal Qasab, the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and even the equally loathed and loved Pakistani military establishment.

Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports from the Islamabad basement where it all started.

Transcending Terror: The Music of Pakistan

Charlotte Buchen traveled to Pakistan to report on traditional and modern music as a 2010 IRP Fellow. In this video, Buchen discusses a Pakistan beyond terrorism by exploring the religious and popular music the country produces.

However, Buchen found, violence does play a significant role in the lives of musicians, who find it increasingly difficult to make a living when the shrines at which they perform are being targeted by extremists.

Heroin addiction on the rise in Pakistan

Islamabad struggles to cope with the spike in heroin addiction across the country.

Pakistan’s controversial religious schools

The Pakistani government is once again trying to reform the country’s religious schools, locally known as madrassas.

Critics argue that they have failed to teach students a wider curriculum, and have become a nursery for future extremists.

But those who run the schools, and the students themselves, strongly disagree.

Louis CK – White People Problems

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We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That’s where your life is amazing, so you just make shit up to be upset about.

People in other countries have real problems, like, ‘oh shit, they’re cutting off all our heads today.’ Things like that.

Here we make shit up to be upset about, like ‘how come I have to choose a language on the ATM machine? It’s bullshit! I shouldn’t have to do that, I’m American!’

‘I called American Airlines and I got a Pakistani lady. And she was in Pakistan! Only people near my fat white body should have jobs!’