Episode

2/9 Rafia Zakaria: The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan

February 9, 2015

Journalist Rafia Zakaria, author of the new book The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan, explains the role of policing gender and sex in the creation of modern Pakistan. Women’s narratives and understanding what is the Pakistani State. The complexity of Benazir Bhutto and the modern civil society movement against terrorism and government corruption in Pakistan.

On The Fun Half: HSBC launders billions for global terrorists and cartels, Syria’s anarchist fighters, Eric Bolling’s big time stupidity, Howie Kurtz defends Rand Paul’s sexism, the state Marriage Equality in  Alabama and your calls and IMs.

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