Podcasts about waziristan

In today's episode, we're diving into one of the most under-appreciated but fascinating corners of British military history: the Waziristan campaign of 1936–1937. It's a tale of Gurkhas, armoured cars, tribal lashkars, and the infamous Faqir of Ipi—all set against the harsh, unforgiving terrain between British India and Afghanistan.   Jon Pick and I will be talking sniping, ambushes and mountain warfare. You'll hear about heroic stands, and questionable decisions.   And if you enjoy this kind of thing—well then keep in touch and stay up to date with my newsletter by heading over to redcoathistory.com/newsletter and signing upIt's where all the best stories march first. Jon's military book business is excellent and can be found here - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/yorkmilitarybooks 

From the heart of Waziristan, the legend of Genghis Khan is being rewritten... on the squash court. Maria Toorpakai Wazir was raised as a boy, and took on everyone and everything - neighborhood bullies, Peshawar weightlifters, and all the rules about who should be able to compete. This story contains references to violence. Please take care while listening. Thank you, Maria Toorpakai Wazir, for sharing your story with Snap. In 2011, Maria moved to Toronto to train with Jonathon Power, a world champion in men's squash. Maria writes about this and so much more in her book: A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight. She has also set up the Maria Toorpakai Foundation encouraging families to educate girls and allow them to play sports. Produced by Zahra Noorbakhsh & Nancy López, original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, artwork by Teo Ducot Season 15 - Episode 6

Read on for today's agenda below prepared by David (thank you very much). - Retired US Diplomat to 5 different nations  David Hunter shares his knowledge, passion, interest, and experience.1)  Assassination Attempt On Former Pakistani Prime Minister?:  Last week former PM of Pakistan Imran Khan was wounded in the legs by what appears to be an attempted assassin while in Waziristan, in the North-West of Pakistan.  He now claims the attempt was organized by the current Pakistan Government of  PM  Shehbaz Sharif, and with funding  by  the USA.  Is he right?  Does this matter?2) Saudi Arabia's Massive Investment in Elon Musk's Twitter?:  Why is Saudi Arabia's richest billionaire Mr. Alwaleed,  investing together with Elon Musk in buying Twitter? Doesn't Musk believe in 'free speech'? That is not what Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Moh. bin Salman practices at home.  What is going on?  3)  Is the US CIA Seeking Release of the Former Saudi Crown Prince?:  Since his arrest in 2020, former Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef has been imprisoned.  Reportedly in May of 2022, CIA director Burns traveled to Saudi Arabia to request his release. But former Crown Prince Nayef is a top competitor for succession to become Saudi King .  Is Biden trying to replace the unreliable Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, if he can?   4) Is Iran's Drone Sales to Russia a Violation of the Iran JCPOA Agreement?:   Iran recently admitted it  shipped 'a few' of its Shahad-136 'kamikaze' drones to Russia, who is using them to attack civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.   Is Iran in violation of it's agreement on restricting missile sales under the Missile Technology Control Regime?

PODCAST | Rumors of counter-terrorism operation in Waziristan (Urdu)

We talk about the ongoing campaigns of sanctions and the harms they have caused, the increasing frequency of violent rampages within the US, and we begin a deep dive on the conflict between The Young Turks and Jimmy Dore and attempt to provide some context and clarity. We recommend checking out Wounds of Waziristan, which you can watch here: https://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/4/wounds_of_waziristan_exclusive_broadcast_of On TYT's corporate cash infusion and its ideological drift: https://medium.com/@RobletoFire/the-ideological-failure-of-the-young-turks-90c15ddde408 To support the JovianMoondough Show and join our patreon community, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/jmds

In this episode we talk to Muhammad Bilal Mehsud born in Waziristan, Pakistan. Where Muhammad was born into really tough conditions and raised by a family that never had much material goods, however a firm belief in faith and education. Moving to Karachi at a young age finishing his schooling and University education, where Muhammad has managed to finish a Degree in Sports Science and Fitness. Now teaching to supplement the cost of training and competing as a professional athlete. His amateur achievements representing pakistan was: Wushu Champion from 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. South Asian Champion in wushu and Kick Boxing Champion from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Professional Boxing light Weight and Super light Weight National Champion. WBC Asia and WBA South Asia Title Challenger.

Maria grew up in Taliban headquarter. That's how she calls the tribal area of Waziristan where she was raised. Today she is a squash player in the international arena and has a foundation to encourage Pakistani girls to also be brave. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Taliban threatened to kill her and her family. So she put herself under a voluntary quarantine for three years. She just hardly ever left the house. The first time she sensed that something was wrong with the way girls were treated in Waziristan was when she was four years old. That's why she burned all her dresses and cut off her hair. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We talk about freedom, extremism and education. About Islam and Islamism. Maria is telling the story of her childhood and what made her burn her dresses as a kid. Also how she made it through such a long time in quarantine and what she thinks about the majority of schools today: nothing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Maria's Utopia is a world where everybody is free. Also from the inside. No prejudices, no extremism. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Maria Toorpakai's Foundation: https://www.mariatoorpakai.org/ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Music: Robert Pilgram http://robertpilgram.com/ Illustration: Christine Anas Textedit: Fiona Weber-Steinhaus https://www.fionaws.com/

Please listen to the full report in Pashto. - شمالي وزيرستان کې د پاکستان د پوځ عملياتو د زرګونو کسانو بې کوره کولو ترڅنګ يادې سيمې ډيري ماکيټونه ويجاړ شوي.داچې د پاکستان پوځ ادعا کوي چې يادو سيمو کې عمليات پای ته رسيدلي ولې ځايي خلک بيا وايي چې د شمالي وزيرستان ويجاړی وروسته اوس د بيا رغونی چارې په ټپه ولاړې ديد شمالي وزيرستان اوسيدونکي وايي چې ددوی کاروبار هم په ټپه ولاړ دی او هم د هر رنګه کاروبار پيلولو لپاره بايد دوی له حکومت څخه اجازه واخلي چې دې کار دوی ته سر خوږی جوړ کړی.شمالي وزيرستان اوسيدونکو له اس بي اس پښتو خپرونې سره خپلې انديښنې شريکې کړي چې تاسې کولی شئ چې د هغوی غږونه درته واورئ.

In the fourth and final episode of the series, anthropologist and physician Omar Dewachi (American University of Beirut) discusses war as a form of governance, drawing on years of ethnographic research on the breakdown of health care in Iraq as well as the travelling wounds of injured Iraqi patients forced to seek medical treatment in other Middle Eastern countries. Dewachi traces the historical formation and effects of global discourses casting Iraq as ungovernable and connects the construction of Iraq as ungovernable to the emergence of the multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Dewachi offers fascinating insights into how war is fueling antimicrobial resistance and generative suggestions about the kinds of ethnographic objects that can help anthropologists talk about war without reproducing the distinction between the direct and indirect effects of war. Hosted by Vasiliki Touhouliotis and Emily Sogn, this four-part series on the “military present” features interviews with scholars of war and militarism that explore how our present is shaped by the technologies, logics, histories, and economy of war. In the first episode, Joe Masco (University of Chicago) spoke about the historical formation of an affective politics that creates a continuous, yet increasingly incoherent militarization, justifying itself as a response to a panoply of perceived threats. In the second episode, Madiha Tahir (Columbia University) discussed how new weapons technologies, particularly drones, have reshaped social landscapes in places like the Waziristan region of Pakistan, where threats both in the air and on the ground, have become an ever-present fact of everyday life. In the third episode, Wazmah Osman (Temple University) spoke about the embodied effects of war in Afghanistan and illustrated how the language of newness and precision are deployed to obscure the long-term and everyday damage caused by ongoing war. For a full transcript of this episode, please follow this link: http://www.americananthropologist.org/the-military-present-episode-4-transcript/ Credits: P.J. Harvey "The Glorious Land" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lFM1K8R1s) Image Caption: Berm remains at Fao, Iraq, the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Iran Iraq-war (1980-1988). Photograph taken by Omar Dewachi(2015).

Dr. Gavin Rand is a Principal Lecturer in History Department at University of Greenwich. Gavin's work explores the transmissions between Britain and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on the cultural history of the imperial military in South Asia. We talked about his research on partition of Indo-Pak 1947 & military operations in Waziristan.

The injustice of the death penalty is something to which Clive Stafford Smith, one of Britain and America’s most powerful lawyers, has dedicated his whole working life. Clive describes Guantanamo Bay (staff have a McDonald’s!), death rows across America, his travels to the families of prisoners across the Middle East and his campaigning against drone strikes in Pakistan with cricketer turned politician Imran Khan. This fascinating insight into a world not often seen is also surprisingly up-beat, with the wit and warmth of a man who loves to ‘work hard and play hard’ never far from the surface.     On this episode we cover:   How Wikipedia describes him One of Britain’s most powerful lawyers How his mum inspired him to help people who are less fortunate Representing people who are hated Krishna Maharaj, the British Trinidadian businessman imprisoned in Florida Death row The Columbian drug cartels Exonerating innocent people in capital cases How some US police feel frame crime suspects ‘The worse the crime the more obvious explanation’ Representing serial killer and paedophile Ricky Langley Lorelei Guillory – mother of murdered boy Jeremy Guillory What motivates him to represent death row inmates His fantastic job His 36 trips to Guantanamo Representing about 88 of prisoners in Guantanamo Guantanamo’s McDonald’s and golf courses Offending the US Army The decent people in Guantanamo How Trump is deranged The 23 people languishing in Guantanamo Last Resort by the Two Magpies Theatre in Bridport A future vision of Guantanamo as a visitor centre Concentration camps near Berlin The books that are banned in Guantanamo (including Jack and the Beanstalk!) The second largest landmine field The future of Cuba Cuba’s new president Miguel Diaz Canel The ‘madman in the White House’ Growing up in Cambridge His mother’s work at King’s College Cambridge Moving to the US age 19 Finding out people on death row have no right to lawyers Loving his life in New Orleans Mardi Gras New Orleans Jazz Festival Setting up a death penalty trial office The prisons he has visited across America Angola Prison in Louisiana Mississippi blues players Describing death row Don Cabana – the decent warden in Mississippi The BBC documentary about death-row inmate Edward Johnson, who he was representing, Fourteen Days in May by Paul Hamann ‘managing to get an innocent person executed at a young age’ Diagnostic and Classification Centre in Georgia The electric chair Obama’s mistakes Attending a Ku Klux Klan The Assassination Programme of the White House ‘Terror Tuesday’ The CIA Concerns about the Trump administration ‘We are all better than the worst 15 minutes of our lives’ Preferring not to represent innocent people How we all do despicable things His new book about his father being bi-polar Mental health disorders Alain de Botton How we will all ask each other ‘how are you mad’? Travelling around the Middle East to find prisoner’s families Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan His terrifying detainment by the Jordanian Secret Service Being interrogated by the head of Secret Service Being in Pakistan with Imran Khan How Imran wont play for Clive’s local cricket team in Dorset (Mapperton Marauders!) Travelling to Waziristan to protest against drone strikes US drone strikes hitting schools and funerals The 16 year old who was killed after their meeting Asking the White House not to kill them The terrible driving skills in Pakistan Why the chaos was caused by the West Tony Blair ‘You can bomb the world to pieces but you can’t bomb it into peace’ The conflict in Syria What politicians really should be doing about conflict in the Middle East Reasons to be cheerful How the charity is funded Running a charity with strong principles Three months in Corsica – aka the ‘happy’ story at the end Writing his new book Learning the drums through his son John Bonham and Led Zeppelin Corsican goat-herders with guns The unfortunate story about the family dog Having a theme tune for each capital case he takes on His appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs His wild nights of partying in New Orleans His awful dancing

Michelle and I talked about her new film The Way Out and Islamophobia, the love of a Mother for her daughter, trauma, fear, religious ideology and why sometimes it’s easier to know less. In The Way Out, co-directors Michelle Shephard and David York, take an intimate journey with the mother (given the pseudonym Saeeda for her own protection), from Canada to Europe and Turkey and back again, as they work various channels seeking what a CSIS officer calls the “exfiltration” of Amina from inside the so-called Islamic State and into the custody of Canadian officials. Michelle Shephard stood among the crumbling remains of New York City’s World Trade Center on the night of 9/11 and asked, “Why?” So began her journalistic journey as the Toronto Star’s National Security reporter, looking for answers in the streets of Mogadishu, Sanaa, to the mountains of Waziristan, refugee camps in Dadaab and Peshawar, the corridors of power in Washington and Ottawa, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle and flying to the world’s most famous jail in Guantanamo Bay more than two dozen times. Shephard has won Canada’s top journalism’s prizes – a three-time recipient of the National Newspaper Award (2002, 2009, 2011) and she was part of a Toronto Star team that won the Governor General’s Michener Award for Public Service Journalism. She has collaborated on various films and was the co-director of Guantanamo’s Child, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was voted as TIFF’s Top Ten Films. She was awarded the Atkinson Fellowship in 2015 for a series called Generation 9/11, which will look at the recruitment of foreign members for Daesh, the group also known as the Islamic State. Shephard speaks frequently on issues of national security and civil rights and lives in Toronto with her photojournalist husband Jim Rankin, traveling frequently for both work and pleasure. Watch the Trailer here. To learn more about her work visit her site here. ---------- Image Copyright: Michelle Shephard. Used with permission. For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mirwais arbeitet im afghanischen Präsidentenbüro in Kabul als Direktor für "Follow Ups". Zuvor war er im Innenministerium tätig. In den 80ern kämpfte Mirwais als Mudschahidin gegen die sowjetische Invasion. Nach dem Abzug der Russen und dem anschließenden Bürgerkrieg im Land ging Mirwais nach Großbritannien. Er kehrte in seine Heimat zurück als sein Onkel, zu der Zeit Afghanistans Botschafter in Pakistan, 2008 von Dschihadisten (Al Qaida) in Waziristan entführt wurde. Mirwais verhandelte und dealte mehr als zwei Jahre mit Dschihadisten und Taliban um seinen Onkel freizubekommen. Wie die Geschichte ausgeht, erzäht er im Interview. Außerdem geht's um die amerikanische und deutsche Rolle im Land, Drohnenangriffe, Mutter aller Bomben und Demokratie in Afghanistan. Das und vieles mehr in der 342. Folge - wir haben sie am 1. Dezember 2017 in Kabul, Afghanistan aufgenommen. Bitte entschuldigt die Tonprobleme zu Beginn. Alles Tilos Schuld!!11!! Alle bisherigen naiven Folgen aus Afghanistan: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQE_zb4awhWNtiOPvW0q85_FAhSKODn- Bitte unterstützt unseren Afghanistan-Trip finanziell: Tilo Jung IBAN: DE36700222000072410386 BIC: FDDODEMMXXX Verwendungszweck: Jung & Naiv PayPal ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv (Wer mindestens €20 gibt, wird im darauffolgenden Monat als Dank in jeder Folge als Produzent gelistet. NEU: Wer €100 gibt, wird sogar für den Rest des Jahres als Produzent im Abspann geführt.) Fanshop ► http://fanshop-jungundnaiv.de/

I 2007 får PET et tip fra en udenlandsk efterretningstjeneste. En ung dansk-pakistaner, Hammad Khürshid, har ifølge tippet ikke kun været på familieferie i Pakistan i maj 2007, men også på terror-træningslejr i Waziristan. Politiets efterretningstjeneste søsætter massiv overvågning af den unge mand, og de følger med på video, da han prøvesprænger en lille dosis TATP, et sprængstof der kaldes Satans mor, i sin opgang. Mød sprængstofekspert Anders Søndergaard, der selv var ude i lejligheden på Glasvej for at lede efter sprængstofrester, efter Khürshid blev anholdt. Mød også Niels Forsby, Khürshids forsvarsadvokat, som stadig ikke mener, at bevismaterialet talte for en terrordom. I studiet: Vært Casper Walbum Høst og retskorrespondent Trine Maria Ilsøe.

The Real of Reality | International Conference on Philosophy and Film Wed, 02.11.2016 – Sun, 06.11.2016 ZKM_Media Theater, ZKM_Lecture Hall, ZKM_Media Lounge, ZKM_Cube Thirteen lives affected by the global arms trade converge in a warehouse in Berlin. From around the world, they have come to dramatize and record their personal stories for “Situation Rooms,” a show by Berlin-based theatre legends, “Rimini Protokoll.” Director Christine Cynn continues the exploration of performance and violence begun in “The Act of Killing” (which she co-directed), juxtaposing dramatic re-enactments with unscripted moments of private reflection and backstage conversation between the protagonists, from heated exchanges on “collateral damage” to banter about diplomatic picnics at Osama Bin Laden’s abandoned compound. Each protagonist acts out their story, filming from their own perspective with a handheld device, creating an uncanny environment where everyone is filming all the time. The set is both real and surreal, a maze of factories, battlefields, and boardrooms, where each room simulates a real place in the life of each protagonist. Step through one door and you’re in a street demonstration in Homs, Syria. The next door leads you to a cubicle in San Diego where a drone operator drops bombs on villagers in Waziristan, Pakistan. Go past the Russian engineer in the Iranian nuclear lab and turn left to witness a nine-year old boy in a classroom in Democratic Republic of Congo being kidnapped to train as a child soldier. “Shooting Ourselves” captures the idiosyncratic atmosphere behind the scenes of this futuristic production, where total strangers from across the globe—and the political spectrum—submit themselves to a theatrical world order where all perspectives are equal. International Conference on Philosophy and Film Photography and film in particular paved the way for complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality and its mechanical reproduction. What does film reproduce and how can we grasp this element, which has the transactive ability to form reality although originating in reality? This shaping takes palce through a complex interaction of image, action and narration and tends to permeate reality completely. It is an inconspicuous process that already affects our everyday life profoundly and is based on a revolution of the real. What does film show? Do we have access to reality that is not based on images or narrations? And what can film and its analysis contribute to philosophical debates on the real? These are questions we are asking to engage in a dialogue between philosophy and film. For five days, one hundred and fifty philosophers, media scholars and filmmakers will connect philosophical theory with cinematic practice and open up new ideas and concepts. To accompany the program, there will be film screenings of documentaries of the invited filmmakers. The participation at the conference is also possible without the presentation of a paper. The conference will be held in English.

Erin and I talk about gender disparity, her new film Girl Unbound, honesty, inspiration and where our perspective comes from.  For more information about TIFF go here. IMDB Trailer More info about the film here. Synopsis Maria Toorpakai Wazir has spent her young life defying expectations. At age 25, she is an internationally competitive squash player. But in her home country, Pakistan, she remains controversial. In her family's region of Waziristan, women are forbidden by the Taliban from playing sports. In Girl Unbound, we follow Maria over several months as she represents Pakistan on the national team and carves her own identity, despite threats to her family. Filmmaker Erin Heidenreich makes her feature directorial debut with the same self-assurance behind the camera that Maria possesses on the squash court. The film takes us from Toronto, where Maria practices with squash champion Jonathon Power, to Pakistan, where her family is forced to relocate to Islamabad for safety. Defying fundamentalist threats, Maria takes a harrowing road trip through Pakistan with her sister Ayesha Gulalai, a local politician. We get to know Maria's large family, including her father, Shamsul, and mother, Yasrab, who rejected restrictive customary gender roles when raising their sons and daughters. Growing up with an athletic physique, Maria dressed as a boy in order to compete in sports and weightlifting. She describes her identity as a mix of feminine and masculine qualities. Whatever confusion that might cause others, she conveys a remarkable self-confidence in being her own person. This year, Maria published her memoir, A Different Kind of Daughter. That book, along with this film, demonstrates that she is a vital voice of resistance, standing up to forces that want to dictate what a woman's role should be. Biography Director-Writer-Producer of award-winning documentaries, short films, commercials and branded content. Erin's voice has been shaped by the cultures she has immersed herself in across the globe and uses the camera to see the unseen. Her passion for stories showing alternative perspectives flows into many forms: Directing a documentary in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan for GIRL UNBOUND (World Premiere 2016 Toronto International Film Festival), directing a short documentary in The Democratic Republic of the Congo for RISING SONS, and narrative work including THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES. Erin 2nd Unit directed for Emmy-Award winning Doug Pray's latest documentary LEVITATED MASS (Los Angeles Film Festival), Executive Produced THE OTHER SHORE (SXSW Film Festival), Produced MISSION CONGO (Toronto International Film Festival), and Executive Produced MADE IN INDIA (Hot Docs). More about her here. ---------- For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Not even Taliban death threats could stop our guest Maria Toorpakai from fulfilling her destiny. Growing up in the conservative region of Waziristan where women have zero rights, Maria Toorpakai, age 4, burned all her dresses. Maria's father and brothers helped hide her female identity so she could play sports and roam freely as a boy. Now an internationally ranked squash player, Maria Toorpakai uses her platform to advocate women's rights. In her new memoir, "A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight," Toorpakai shares, "Courage in Pakistan is often a fatal virtue." Still her courageous parents defied societal expectations and encouraged each of their children to live authentically, even if that meant putting their lives at risk. And Maria's mother, a school principal, continues to travel to dangerous territories in order to build schools for girls. You don't want to miss this provocative and empowering "Atomic Moms" discussion about having the courage to allow our children to be their truest selves. Subscribe and leave a review on iTunes! For program notes go to www.atomicmoms.com

Maria Toorpakai grew up in the traditional tribal region of Waziristan, and from an early age decided she would rather play with the boys than stay inside with the girls. So she burned her 'girly' clothes and cut her hair short so she could run and jump and wrestle outside. When her family moved to Peshawar Maria picked up a squash racket for the first time, and by the age of 16 was Pakistan's number one player. Her success led to death threats however, and she was forced into hiding and playing only in her bedroom. Maria now lives and trains in Canada. Her book A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight (with Katharine Holstein) is out now. Malaysia's Nicol David has dominated women's squash since 2005. She was the World No 1 woman player for an unprecedented 9 years. Nicol says her greatest win was her first world title when she was 22 in Hong Kong, which came as a complete surprise. She started playing squash with her sisters to work out her hyperactivity, and quickly became a junior champion. She says squash is like 'physical chess' - you are always thinking ahead by two or three moves.

Listen in as Patrick and Michelle talk candidly about truth, injustice and provide important insights into the life of Omar Khadr.Synopsis of FilmOmar Khadr: child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? The 28-year-old Canadian has been a polarizing figure since he was 15. In 2002, Khadr was captured by Americans in Afghanistan and charged with war crimes. In October 2010, Khadr pleaded guilty to five war crimes, including “murder in violation of the laws of war,” in return for a plea deal that gave him an eight-year sentence and chance to return to Canada. Khadr later recanted his confession.His Guantanamo conviction is being appealed in the U.S courts. After spending nearly half his life behind bars, including a decade at Guantanamo, Khadr is suddenly released. Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr features unprecedented access and exclusive interviews with Khadr during his first few days of freedom in Edmonton, where he was released on bail on May 7, 2015.This documentary delivers an intimate portrait of how a teenager from a Toronto suburb became the center of one of the first U.S. war crimes trial since the prosecution of Nazi commanders in the 1940s. Khadr is the only juvenile ever tried for war crimes. Guantanamo’s Child gives Omar Khadr the opportunity to speak for himself on camera, for the first time.Based in part on Michelle Shephard’s authoritative book Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr, the documentary takes us from his childhood traveling between a Canadian suburb and Peshawar at the height of the jihad against the Soviets, to Afghanistan and the homes of Al Qaeda’s elite, into the notorious U.S. prisons at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay and back again to Canada. Finally, his story, in his own words.Patrick and Michelle BiosOver the past decade, Patrick Reed has collaborated on several award-winning documentaries for White Pine Pictures. These films have appeared at the most prestigious festivals, been broadcast around the world, honoured with awards and theatrically released. One of Reed’s first assignments with White Pine was researching and co-producing the multi-award-winning Shake Hands With The Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire. In 2007, Reed produced a ratings winner for CBC’s flagship documentary strand, Tar Sands: The Selling of Canada. He followed this up with Pets on Prozac, casting a suspicious eye on the growing phenomenon of pet pharmaceuticals. Reed’s film Triage followed Dr. James Orbinski back to Somalia and Rwanda where he was at the centre of far too many life and death decisions during those country’s years of upheaval. Triage had its world premiere at the 2007 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), where it was voted an audience favourite; and screened at the Sundance Film Festival 2008, and HotDocs, winning a number of international awards.Reed also directed Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope, a cinema vérité chronicle of the work of doctors and nurses fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Lesotho, Africa. Tsepong received multiple 2007 Gemini Award nominations, and screened internationally at numerous festivals. Reed’s feature documentary, The Team – following the making of a soap opera in Kenya designed to bridge ethnic divides – had its world premiere at IDFA in 2010. The film screened at Human Rights Watch Festivals in London and New York, Full Frame, HotDocs and Silverdocs. Reed recently completed another documentary feature with White Pine Pictures about General Romeo Dallaire and child soldiers, Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children, shot in South Sudan, Rwanda and the DR Congo.———-Michelle Shephard has spent more than a decade as the Toronto Star’s National Security reporter, traveling around the world, from the streets of Mogadishu, and Sanaa, to the mountains of Waziristan, through the corridors of power and making more than two dozen trips to the world’s most famous jail in Guantanamo Bay. Shephard has won Canada’s top journalism’s prizes – a three-time recipient of the National Newspaper Award and part of a team that received the Governor General’s Michener Award for Public Service Journalism.She is the author of Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr (2008) and Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone (2011) and is widely published elsewhere including The New Yorker, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Guardian and The New Republic.Shephard has collaborated on various documentaries including her role an associate producer on the Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award winning documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat and produced the National Film Board’s documentary Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd, which premiered at Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in November 2014, along with other international festivals. Shephard is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma and speaks often on issues of national security and civil rights. She is the 2015/2016 recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship and will spend a year investigating the Islamic State and “Generation 9/11.”  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mobeen Azhar reports from Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, where police are at war with the Taliban. Given rare access to the work of the police by a Senior Superintendent in Karachi's Criminal Investigation Department, Mobeen joins officers on a night time raid in search of the men who train suicide bombers. He meets a suspect in custody who brags about planting bombs and describes how he urges teenage boys to sacrifice their lives in violent jihad. Mobeen also talks to a businessman who was kidnapped for ransom and meets the families of police officers who have been killed by the militants. Assassinations linked to political parties have blighted the city for over a decade but today, more than 70 groups representing the militant Taliban are also fighting for control. This guerrilla war, once confined to the tribal belt of Waziristan has moved into Karachi with devastating results.

Om det enorma projektet som i 25 år försökt utrota polio. Men nu slår viruset tillbaka, med hjälp av CIA, pakistanska talibaner och det smutsiga kriget i Syrien. Är utrotandet ett omöjligt uppdrag? Hör talibanen i Waziristan, WHO-chefen i Toronto och Hans Rosling i Uppsala om det gigantiska, globala folkhälsoprojektet som nu står inför sin svåraste utmaning. Det såg ut att vara möjligt. Efter framgången med utrotandet av smittkoppor och med flera verksamma vaccin mot polio igång sen 50-talet bestämde sig världsamfundet för att göra samma sak med polio - utrota sjukdomen helt. Förutsättningen är att få ut vaccin till alla barn under fem år i hela världen - ett enomt projekt. Men med en mångmiljardbudget, bland annat tack vare Bill Gates Foundation och miljontals vaccinatörer sattes slutmålet upp: en poliofri värld 2018. I dagens Konflikt ska vi undersöka hur det går med den saken. Men vi börjar med att backa bandet till en tid då polio var något som satte skräck också här i Sverige. Än i dag lever tusentals svenskar med följdsjukdomen postpolio. Konflikts Kajsa Boglind har träffat Karl-Bertil Möller som smittades på en potatisåker i Östergötland i början av 50-talet och Amal Karam som fick polio som liten i Bagdad. Men hur kom det gigantiska projektet med målet att utrota polio globalt egentligen till? Och varför är det så viktigt att just utrota viruset, inte bara hålla sjukdomen under kontroll? Konflikts Ivar Ekman ringde upp Bruce Aylward, biträdande generalsekreterare på WHO och ansvarig för den globala poliovaccinationskampanjen. Om man tittar på en karta över var polion fortfarande härjar, ser man att det så gott som uteslutande rör sig om platser där det pågår ett väpnat uppror, ofta med islamistiska förtecken. De tre områden där polio aldrig utrotats är norra Nigeria, där terrorgruppen Boko Haram har sin bas,  bergstrakterna i nordvästra Pakistan - framförallt Waziristan - och östra Afghanistan, som kontrolleras av olika taliban-grupper. Och den spridning som skett under dom senaste två åren har framförallt varit till Syrien, Irak och Somalia. Men varför finns den här kopplingen? En förklaring är att det platserna är fattiga och otillgängliga, att utbildningsnivån där är låg.  Militanta organisationer lätt kan styra där med hjälp av rädsla och desinformation. En vanlig konspirationsteori i både Pakistan och Nigeria är till exempel att poliovaccinet är till för att sterilisera muslimer. Men den senaste tidens poliokris visar också på en mycket tydligare och direkt sammanblandning mellan det krig som förs i dom här områdena av den rika delen av världen, med framförallt drönare, och den kamp som förs av  framförallt samma rika länder för att utrota polion. Och den sammanblandningen har lett till att de militanta krafterna har kunnat visa att de har fog för sin skepsis, sin paranoia mot allt som har med väst att göra, inklusive vaccinationerna. Konflikts Ivar Ekman ringde upp pakistanske journalisten Saeed Shah som var den första att avslöja ett - för polioutrotningen - mycket olyckligt sammanträffande. Ett land som hade lyckats utrota polio med hjälp av vaccinationer, men där sjukdomen nu har blossat upp igen, är Syrien. Sedan förra året har 36 fall konstaterats, framförallt i det jihadistkontrollerade området kring Deir er Zour i nordöstra Syrien, nära gränsen till Irak. Man har också kunnat konstatera att smittan kommit från Pakistan. Och Syrien är inte det enda landet som smittan spritt sig till. Hittills har två barn i Irak insjuknat i år, och man har även hittat viruset i avloppvatten i Israel, på Västbanken och i Gaza. Ett land där man ser på den här utvecklingen med stor oro är förstås Libanon, som har tagit emot mer än en miljon flyktingar från Syrien. Konflikts Jesper Lindau  reste till en klinik i stadsdelen Burj Hammoud i Beirut, dit många syriska flyktingar kommer för att få skydd mot polio. I studion: Hans Rosling, professor i internationell hälsa vid Karolinska Institutet. Programledare: Ivar Ekman Producent: Kajsa Boglind

Correspondents worldwide: Owen Bennett-Jones attends a Christian church service in Waziristan, Pakistan's Taliban country; Mark Tully considers whether India's secular tradition is under threat now the Hindu nationalist BJP has been voted in to power; Justin Rowlatt watches the Brazilian authorities trying to protect 'the most endangered tribe on the planet'; Thomas Fessy visits a ski shop on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Niger and on 'Good Neighbours Day' in France, Joanna Robertson finds suspicion, hostility, grievance and gossip alive and well in the apartment blocks of Paris. Programme produced by Tony Grant.

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