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Women and War in a complex region -- Pakistan-Afghanistan

By Frieda Werden
| November 8, 2015

Podcast




Title: rpnWINGS28-15-Pakistan-Afghanistan
Length: 0:29:11 minutes (40.08 MB)
Format: 44.1kHz, 192Kbps

Show Notes:

Nafisa Hoodbhoy and Frieda Werden 2015
Nafisa Hoodbhoy

Pakistan and Afghanistan share a porous border, crossed by people, ideologies, and wars. Nafisa Hoodbhoy, a longtime journalist and author from the region situates women's rights in an unstable territory, including U.S. efforts at intervention.  

Pakistani journalist Nafisa Hoodbhoy is the author of Aboard the Democracy Train: A Journey Through Pakistan's Last Decade of Democracy, and a former regional correspondent for WINGS. She is currently a well known host for Urdu-language radio and TV.  Her book and blog can be found at www.aboardthedemocracytrain.com 

Interview and production by WINGS series producer, Frieda Werden.

 

Tags:
women's rights Afghanistan Pakistan war US politics Drones tribal societies

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