Podcast appearances and mentions of Asma Jahangir

Kamila Shamsie, author of the award-winning novel 'Home Fire' champions the life of the Pakistani human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. Kamila says she was only ten years old, growing up in Karachi, when Asma became her hero even before she really knew her name. She remembers her mother and her aunts all talking about this amazing woman lawyer and social activist who was standing up against many of the laws that Pakistan's President General Zia ul Haq had introduced in the 1980s. Jahangir was always making the news headlines or giving radio interviews. Here was a woman who was determined to speak her mind and stand up for women and the human rights of all its citizens - it seemed she feared no-one, recalls Shamsie. In this programme Kamila Shamsie is joined by Asma's daughter Sulema Jahangir, a lawyer now working in London and Pakistan who shares some personal stories and anecdotes about her mother and Saqlain Imam, journalist and broadcaster with BBC World Service Urdu Service. The presenter is Matthew Parris and the producer is Perminder Khatkar.

Topics in this episode: Intro - grad school updates/our lifelong commitment to not having our shit together (0:00- 5:43) Zainab has an on-air breakdown after learning sim is short for simulation (5:45) RIP Sridevi and Asma Jahangir two legends (10:57) Kim K wore a sari on Vogue India and Desi men lost their minds (13:00) Sana Safinaz please fuck off forever with your racist advertisements (16:00) Sana Safinaz Faces Backlash for Racist Campaign Getty Images mixed up Kelly Marie Tran and Mirai Nigasu because there's sooooo many Asians (21:35) Quick Dev Patel thirst session/discussion on beauty standards (23:00) MO SALAH-LA-LA-LA THIS IS NOW A MOHAMED SALAH FAN PODCAST WE LOVE YOU OUR MUSLIM SOCCER ICON MASHALLAH (27:20) No Cop Academy Campaign in Chicago. Discussion on Rahm Emanuel's policies on shutting down schools and expanding police in Chicago (32:19) WCW (we have so many crushes this week): Hajra Khan, Marielle Franco, Claudia Rankine, Guneez and Hannah (47:55) Links to things we referenced in this episode: Mo Salah fans chant about how they're going to become Muslim We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie No Cop Academy Donate to No Cop Academy Behind Sale of Closed Schools, A Legacy of Segregation The Laquan McDonald Email Dump Shows Rahm Emanuel's Administration in Crisis Mode No Cop Academy in Chicago: Black Students Hold Hours-Long Sit-In at City Hall Marielle Franco's Legacy and the Fight for Rio's, and Brazil's, Future Claudia Rankine --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chaivorytower/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chaivorytower/support

Hope you guys had a happy Hallmark Day on the 14th! For our special February Feels episode Sweety & Pappu dive deep to bring you some truth nuggets about Radical Self Love. This episode has been a tough one for us because both of us have had an arduous journey towards self-love. Pappu gets down to the root of it, to deliver a definition of ‘love’ that all of us could use (with help from bell hooks). According to bell hooks the word ‘love’ is often described as a noun, but it should rather be used as a verb. Sweety is close at hand to offer her tried and tested 4-step radical self-love rituals that have helped her after years of therapy. Also, we give out our very first Show the Bhindi Award (Show the Ladyfinger) posthumously to the phenomenal activist Asma Jahangir. Wait up until the end coz Sweety will be sharing her Audio Tonic recommendation (or her tasteful February Feels music suggestion) – this one goes out to you suckers for Ed Sheeran and the likes. Sweety picks out her favourite Jeff Buckley tracks that you need to have in your music library if you like to call yourself ‘alternative’ or ‘indie’ (is that word still cool?) Peace out! --- Sound Clips from: - Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (2001) -- // Starring: • Sweety & Pappu // See what’s next on Chuski Pop: • ChuskiPop.com // Buy Art Prints - ChuskiPop.com/Shop // Donate - ChuskiPop.com/Donate // Patreon - Patreon.com/ChuskiPop // Listen To Us: • SoundCloud - @chuskipop • iTunes - itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/chusk…d1021452101?mt=2 • Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/podcast/chuski-pop • GooglePlay - play.google.com/music/m/Itfvq2wpw…inei?t=Chuski_Pop • Youtube - www.youtube.com/channel/UCVXt7nc3pu2e9WJf6jcKMjg // Follow Us: • Twitter ► Twitter.com/ChuskiPop • Instagram ► instagram.com/chuskipop • Facebook ► facebook.com/chuskipop • Soundcloud ► @chuskipop

Photo: Morgan Tsvangirai Matthew Bannister on Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change and Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013. Douglas Botting, film maker, author and explorer who flew a hot air balloon across Africa and sailed a hovercraft down the Orinoco. Professor Patricia Lindop, who researched the effects of radiation on human tissue. Asma Jahangir, the lawyer from Pakistan who campaigned for the rights of the country's persecuted minorities. And Vic Damone, the crooner who recorded more than two thousand songs. Interviewed guest: Alex Magaisa Interviewed guest: Anna Botting Interviewed guest: Dr Giles Camplin Interviewed guest: Patricia Dixon Interviewed guest: Mohammed Hanif Archive clips from: The Choice, Radio 4 07/12/2004; The World About Us: River of Death, BBC Two 19/01/69; Balloon From Zanzibar, BBC Two 23/08/62; The World About Us: Three Men in a Balloon, BBC Two 13/12/70; On The Bosom of the Air, Radio 4 19/09/1962; Hot to Handle: The Two Faces of Radiation, BBC One 17/03/66; Science and Society, BBC One 22/03/66; Nihal, BBC Asian Network 17/11/2010; Taking A Stand, Radio 4 01/01/2002; Outlook, BBC World Service, 22/11/2010; Woman's Hour, Radio 4, 07/06/2005; The Arthur Askey Variety Show, Radio 4 Extra, 07.06.2015; The John Dunn Show, Radio 2, 01/01/00.

Human rights lawyer and social activist Asma Jahangir gives the fourth annual Sarfraz Pakistan lecture. The lecture is introduced by Matthew McCartney. Pakistan has yet to fully comprehend that democracy cannot survive unless there are strong judicial machinisms that promote rule of law. Ironically, Pakistan's transition to democracy has invariably been disturbed by judicial intervention on the pretext of upholding rule of Law. This vicious cycle has undermined both the parliament and the courts. The erosion of a genuine democratic process has given space to the more organized civil and military bureaucracy to put on display a sham system of electoral politics while holding actual power themselves. However, each time that there is clash of interest between political forces challenging the hold of the military on civilian authority, it has pushed back military supremacy but only marginally.

Pakistan was conceived of as a country where Muslims could live free of Hindu domination and discrimination but was that the extent of the project? Was it meant to be a country in which Muslims could live safely or was the idea to establish an Islamic state? And is, in fact, an Islamic state the final goal of Muslims? Are there ways of blending the ideas of Islam with systems of government that do not take a view on religion and allow individuals to live their religious lives as they see fit? On this week’s Newshour Extra Owen Bennett Jones is in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to find out whether an Islamic state is possible in the modern world. The guests this week are Zubair Safdar, Public Policy Analyst and Media Coordinator of the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, Dr Soumia Aziz, Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Islamic International University, Islamabad, and Mosharraf Zaidi, the leader of Alif Ailaan, a political campaign that helps to address Pakistan’s education crisis, and also a columnist and former government adviser. Owen Bennett Jones was also speaking to lawyers Asma Jahangir and Justice Muhammad Raza Khan (Photo: Pakistan's national flag Credit: Getty Images)

Husain Haqqani joins Asma Jahangir, Pakistan's leading human rights lawyer and activist, for an in-depth look at the current situation in Pakistan.

Husain Haqqani joins Asma Jahangir, Pakistan's leading human rights lawyer and activist, for an in-depth look at the current situation in Pakistan.

Jibran Nasir is a Pakistani activist most commonly associated with effort to have Abdul Aziz of Islamabad's Lal Masjid arrested. A lawyer, a television anchor, a writer and motivational speaker, Jibran is Pakistani civil society's renaissance man. Fasi and Mosharraf talk to Jibran about the present and future of Pakistani civil society, the smooth stylings of Zayn Malik, the role of Asma Jahangir has played in creating the Pakistan of 2016 and a whole host of other issues. You can find Jibran at @mjibrannasir and his movement's website is www.neverforget.pk.

The distinguished Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist spent a week at MHC as the 2009 Carol Hoffmann Collins Global Scholar-in-Residence, hosted by the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives.

The distinguished Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist spent a week at MHC as the 2009 Carol Hoffmann Collins Global Scholar-in-Residence, hosted by the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives.