Worked with colleague Munazza Anwar to make this digital video and first exclusive interview of the content creator Dananeer Mobeen who became a viral meme in Pakistan.
Kashmir History Podcasts
Worked with BBC Urdu’s Aliya Nazki to produce this series of podcasts on Kashmir’s political history, from Amristar Sale Deed to recent changes in Article 370 in Indian consitution.
The first episode is embeded here:
To see the rest of the episodes, you can view the playlist here.
Coronavirus vaccination in Pakistan begins
Digital video about the first person in Pakistan getting vaccinated for Covid-19.
London: PTI & PMLN clash outside while Nawaz Sharif prepares speech for Gujranwala rally
Covered dual protests of Pakistan Tehreek i Insaf and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) in London during the Nawaz Sharif speech at PDM rally in Gujranwala.
US Election Results: Protests erupt as vote counting continues
Made a video around US election results when protest erupted to stop the vote count.
Pakisan’s Wheat Crisis Explained
Challenged myself to explain Pakistan’s 2020 wheat crisis within 2 minutes! This was an experimental work of doing down-the-lens explainers.
IPL vs PSL
Indian Premier League is the biggest cricket league in India. While it enjoyed much fame in Pakistan, during its initial seasons… it is now completely banned in Pakistan. Do Pakistani cricket enthusiasts still watch IPL? Should sports and politics be mixed? I asked players of a local cricket club in Islamabad.
Asia Bibi – Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy case
We did an in-depth investigation into the history of Pakistan’s blasphemy law and the problems that have been cause as a result of it. Using Asia Bibi’s case as an opening, we met different characters around Pakistan who were somehow involved in the bigger picture of blasphemy law – either its support or opposition.
The pictures for this story were taken by me, while I also did the production for it.
You can read the story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Asia_Bibi
BBC She series in Pakistan
In winter 2018, I produced a month-long series under the title of “BBC She”. This campaign was introduced to increase the outreach of women’s voices from the grassroots of Pakistan. In the first phase of the campaign, our team went to four different cities in each province of Pakistan to talk to young university students.
This series ran simultaneously on BBC Urdu and BBC Hindi.
During these hour-long townhall style discussions, we got to hear some very smart, confident and fierce women. Here are the condensed version of discussions from each city.
Episode 1: Quetta, Balochistan
Episode 2: Larkana, Sindh
Episode 3: Abbotabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Episode 4: Lahore, Punjab
Anti-Dowry Campaign in Pakistan
UN Women Pakistan launched a campaign called #JahezKhoriBandKaro. For BBC Urdu, I reached out to the people around Islamabad and Rawalpindi to ask their opinion on the custom of dowry and the criticism that this campaign has been receiving.
Also ran on BBC Hindi and BBC Punjabi.
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