Episode Details

Gulalai Ismail is a Pashtun human rights activist from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. She is the chairperson of Aware Girls, a global ambassador for Humanists International, and a supporter of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). She speaks on the subject of promoting peace and women's empowerment at conferences internationally, and is the recipient of the International Humanist of the Year Award, the Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award.  Gulalai comes on the podcast to discuss PTM, Pashtun Rights, the Philosophy of Non-Violence,

Separatism, Fata's inclusion, Identity based resistance, patriarchy and identities.

Does Non-Violence work?

What are the issues of people on the periphery?  Why did people support Drone attacks?

Find out this and more on this week's episode of The Pakistan Experience.

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Chapters: 0:00 The Philosophy of Non-Violence

5:00 Dealing with Militancy and Militant Organizations

19:00 FATA's inclusion in KP

24:00 People on the periphery and Identity based resistance

39:30 Sub-Identities and the National Identity

44:45 Separatism and Borders

1:00:50 Imran Khan called for Gulalai's release

1:05:30 Masters in International Human Rights

1:09:30 Pashtun Culture and Patriarchy

1:15:30 Patriarchy in PTM

1:18:30 Dealing with Grief

1:19:30 Afghan Taliban and the Shackles of Slavery

1:20:50 Child Marriages

1:22:50 Trans Issues in KP

1:24:30 Pashtun Politics and Women Empowerment

1:26:00 Ashraf Ghani's Government

1:27:10 Drone Attacks

1:31:40 PTM and Anti-military politics

1:38:00 Closing Remarks