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Sajeer Shaikh and Shehzad Ghias look back at the journey of The Pakistan Experience, from being a PTI supporter in 2013 to being a critic of the party in 2024, Shehzad and Sajeer discuss the five years of TPE, the pressures of making content, using children for content, sensationalism, mental health,
BTS, Cult Culture, and a breakdown of Shehzad's euro trip.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction and Mental Health Catch up
6:36 Supporting PTI when I was young
20:00 Is TPE ending?
27:00 Trolling, Lashing out and Polarization
31:00 Using Children for Content
51:00 Online criticism
1:01:00 BTS Army and Cult Culture
1:07:00 journey of TPE and People's expectations
1:28:00 Euro Trip
2:16:00 Staying away from Sensationalism
2:20:00 Conclusion and Audience Questions



The Journey of TPE, Euro Trip and Using Children for Content - Sajeer Shaikh - Shehzad Ghias - #TPE

The Pakistan Experience is a podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan, and Pakistanis, through the lost art of conversations.

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Is Pakistan's Master Narrative Anti-India and Anti-Hindu? 

Episode 2 of Two Pakistans looks at Pakistan's Master Narrative, the Secular Liberal vs Islamist Debate in Pakistan, What Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam wanted, the treatment of religious minorities in Pakistan, the conflict between traditionalists and modernists in the Muslim League and how Pakistan has created a nation without history.

Our new series, Two Pakistans, looks at the conflicts in Pakistan and uses Dr. Mohammad Waseem's book, "Political Conflict in Pakistan" to explain the fault lines in Pakistan.


The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. 
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The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. 




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Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/
Twitter.com/shehzad89

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Does Pakistan Studies teach Hindu Hate?
7:00 Creating a Nation without History and Pakistan's Master Narrative
9:00 How America pushed Pakistan into Jehadism
13:00 Creating a Hindu Demon for Pakistan's Master Narrative
21:00 Enforcement of Identities and the Language Issue
24:00 Why don't we tell Pakistan's History?
28:00 Three Categories of Pakistan's Master Narrative
35:00 Islamists vs Modernists



Is Pakistan's Master Narrative Anti-India and Anti-Hindu? - Two Pakistans - Shehzad Ghias #TPE


A year on from 9th May 2023, we look back at the past year, from PTI being relaunched in 2011 to the 2014 Dharna, the 2017 movement against democracy, the 2018 Elections, the Hybrid Regime and the ouster of Imran Khan, we look at how the Military Establishment made in roads in Pakistan and the space for free media, democracy and civilian supremacy shrunk in Pakistan.

Was Imran Khan the spokesperson for the Military Establishment?

Was PTI a project of the ISI?

Was 9th May a False Flag Operation?

Find out this and more on this episode of The Pakistan Experience

The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. 
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Chapters:
0:00 9th May one year on
1:00 Launch of PTI and the 22 year struggle of Imran Khan
8:45 Charter of Democracy and Relaunch of Imran Khan
16:20 2013 Elections, Hamid Mir and Restricting the space for Media
23:00 2014 Dharna and receding space for Democracy in Pakistan
27:00 The 2018 Elections and Movement against the Parliament
43:00 What was Imran Khan removed in 2022?
47:00 PTI's narrative of corruption and personal animosity
53:00 PTI and General Bajwa after April 2022 - Intra-Establishment Conflict
 56:30 Cases against Imran Khan
1:00:50 9th May
1:16:00 Post Imran Khan World



Was PTI the political wing of the Military Establishment? - From 2011 Jalsa to 9th May - #TPE


Waqas Alam comes back on The Pakistan Experience to discuss the recent flooding in Gwadar, the Structure of the Pakistani State and why Balochistan is ignored by mainstream media.

In this episode we discuss the rains in Gwadar, flooding, the bureaucracy, the difference between the two Gwadars, Fishing Culture, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, the Sardari System and more.

Waqas Alam Angaria is a baloch journalist associated with Geo News. He has covered 2022 floods extensively and Gwader flood 2024. He covers a variety of topics, including human rights, heritage, politics, and natural disasters. He had been active in student politics before becoming a journalist. He was a member of the National Students Federation and later became president of Progressive Students Federation Karachi. He tweets @waqasaalam 

The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. 
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The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. 
Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh
Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/
Twitter.com/shehzad89

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Flooding and Rain in Gwadar
13:00 Climate Change, Drought and Flooding
16:30 Government, Bureaucracy and Balochistan
27:00 Fishing Culture in Balochistan and Respect for Nature
34:00 Climate Mitigation
45:50 Media ignored floods in Gwadar
58:30 Sardari system in Balochistan and State Structure
1:20:00 Academic work in Pakistan
1:26:30 Why does mainstream Pakistanis not care about the peripheries
1:29:00 Audience Questions



Why is Balochistan ignored by the Mainstream Media? - Waqas Alam on Gwadar Flooding - #TPE 356


Arsalan Khan is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Arsalan Khan comes on The Pakistan Experience to discuss his book on the Tablighi Jamaat of PAkistan, "The Promise of Piety".

On this week's episode we discuss Colonialism, Religion, The Tablighi Jamaat, Maulana Tariq Jameel, TLP, Taliban, Revivalist Movements and the importance of rituals.

In The Promise of Piety, Arsalan Khan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement the Tablighi Jamaat. This group says that Muslims have abandoned their religious duties for worldly pursuits, creating a state of moral chaos apparent in the breakdown of relationships in the family, nation, and global Islamic community. Tablighis insist that this dire situation can only be remedied by drawing Muslims back to Islam through dawat, which they regard as the sacred means for spreading Islamic virtue. In a country founded in the name of Muslim identity and where Islam is ubiquitous in public life, the Tablighi claim that Pakistani Muslims have abandoned Islam is particularly striking.

The Promise of Piety shows how Tablighis constitute a distinct form of pious relationality in the ritual processes and everyday practices of dawat and how pious relationality serves as a basis for transforming domestic and public life. Khan explores both the promise and limits of the Tablighi project of creating an Islamic moral order that can transcend the political fragmentation and violence of life in postcolonial Pakistan.

The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. 
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The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. 
Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh
Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/
Twitter.com/shehzad89

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Use of Blasphemy Law in Pakistan
4:51 Colonialism, Religion and 'Evolution of Thought'
13:00 Tablighi Jamaat; Sense of Order, Ethics and Masculinity
21:30 Maulana Tariq Jameel and Hierarchies 
26:00 Bidat, Islamic Reform Movement and Revivalist Movements
42:00 Is Hindutva a Revuvakust movement
43:55 Otherization and Inviting people 
48:00 Ritual. Dawat and Personal Relationships
54:00 Raiwand, Building Connections and Ego
1:02:00 Deobandi School of Thought, TTP and TLP
1:14:30 Religious Populism, PTI and Imran Khan
1:25:45 Audience Questions



Colonialism, Religion and the Tablighi Jamaat - Arsalan Khan - #TPE 355


Ismat Raza Shahjehan is the the Deputy General-Secretary of the Awami Workers Party, President of the Women’s Democratic Front and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement.

Ismat comes on The Pakistan Experience to discuss Mahrang Baloch's protest in Islamabad, PTM, the Politics of Resistance, The Left, Revolution and the State's Monopoly over violence.

The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. 
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The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. 
Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh
Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/
Twitter.com/shehzad89

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 State atrocities on the Baloch March
9:30 Why peripheries are not allowed to protest in Islamabad
17:30 Parliamentary Politics vs Resistance Politics
21:30 Revolution, System Change and Violence
32:30 Philosophy of Non-violence and the State's Monopoly over Violence
40:25 Militarization of Pushtoon Culture and Zia-ul-Haq
53:30 Why Urban Pakistan does not care about the Peripheries
1:00:00 KhyberPukhtoonkhwa. PTI and Pakistan's Political System
1:08:00 Left Politics, Progressive Causes and Identity Politics
1:18:30 Audience Questions



The Journey of TPE, Euro Trip and Using Children for Content - Sajeer Shaikh - Shehzad Ghias - #TPE

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