Katie Finn is a philanthropist from the United States who has traveled with volunteer organizations through different countries. During her travels, she visited Bosnia and met refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries, who are li

#74 - Balochistan

Jan 31st, 2024 53m 17s

Follow the Balochistan times on Instagram.Further reading on the issues:Written by Sheraz: https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2022/02/reducing-environmental-social-costs-chinese-investments-pakistan/https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/22/res

#73 - Kennedy's Time in Pakistan

Jan 13th, 2021 46m 52s

Watch this Episode on YouTube!https://youtu.be/AckWixGbzdQ Kennedy Horton was born in America, but from the ages of 7 to 15, he moved with his family to Sindh, Pakistan. Afterwards he moved across Thailand, China, and he now resides in Ireland

#72 - Religiosity

Dec 30th, 2020 1h 12m

A fantastic conversation with Dr. Shabana Mir, from Chicago, U.S., who is here to unpack some of her knowledge and thoughts about various issues affecting Muslims and Muslim women today. Shabana Mir is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Di

#71 - Resilience

Dec 7th, 2020 58m 40s

A really thought provoking discussion about the most common challenges that affect our Pakistani youth today - lack of opportunities, fear of failure, family and parental pressure, anxiety, and more. Our guest, Mehmooda Shah from Rawalpindi, Pa

#70 - Ko-Ko-Korea

Nov 21st, 2020 43m 21s

Ayesha Wahidi was born and raised in the midwest, U.S. Earlier in 2020, she moved to Korea for a teaching-abroad program. She shares her experiences in and out of Korea and her perspectives on common life struggles. Feel free to reach out to Ay

#69 - Engaged at 12

Nov 11th, 2020 1h 5m

Watch the video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/5NSALKYBjz0 21 year old Noor-ul-Ain from Dubai went viral on TikTok after sharing her personal traumatic story of an ordinary wedding / shaadi visit to Pakistan gone wrong. Essentially ,

#68 - Life in Southern Africa

Oct 27th, 2020 36m 37s

Bilal Junejo was born in Pakistan, but grew up living in the southern region of Africa, namely the countries of Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Bilal gives us a glimpse of his life over there, including the people, the food, and the places.

#67 - Life in Japan

Oct 11th, 2020 52m 46s

Meet Fareeha, living in Japan. She hasn't spent a lot of time in Pakistan, grew up in Saudi Arabia, and then moved to Japan for her studies to a city called Sendai, and has been living there for 9 years, currently working at a lab while pursuin

#66 - To Sacrifice My OWN Life for Pakistan

Sep 28th, 2020 34m 58s

Note: this podcast episode exists in video form on our YouTube channel. We strongly recommend watching the video version, as it has more visual context around this topic. Find the video version on our YouTube channel or use the following link:h

#65 - The NewsRun

Sep 20th, 2020 34m 18s

Meet Anam Khan, a Pakistani American currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, U.S. She has moved back and forth between Pakistan and U.S. and spent a significant time living in both countries. Anam is here to talk about her startup eff

#64 - The History Buff

Sep 13th, 2020 47m 46s

Warning: this episode contains a few sexual jokes / mature conversations at certain points. Please listen with caution.Satir Ahmed is a 22 year old history buff (fan) currently living in Newfoundland, Canada, for his studies. He has also lived

Bonus

BONUS - a video discussion

Sep 3rd, 2020 53m 45s

Here's our first discussion captured in video form and uploaded to our YouTube channel (search for Pak-Cord). Mostly discussed in Urdu, in this episode we (guest: Hamza Farooq from Miami, FL) explain the pros and cons of an audio podcast and a

#63 - The Ertugrul Conundrum

Aug 30th, 2020 1h 39m

We bring back our old "Do Takkay" squad from episodes 48 and 49 - Myrah Shafiq, Manahill Shafiq, and Hamza Farooq, to discuss the great Elephant surrounding Pakistan's entertainment industry: Ertugrul. Ertugrul is a popular Turkish show based o

#62 - Love Letters to Pakistan

Aug 14th, 2020 40m 58s

Several old and new guests come together to share monologues ("love letters") to Pakistan, to celebrate August 14, 2020. Celebrate with us by tuning in !

#61 - PUBG Ban and Teen Mental Health

Aug 9th, 2020 35m 49s

In this episode we want to shine a light on teen mental health. 3 teenager suicides took place around June of this year, one after another. All of these suicides were linked by authorities to a popular video game called Playerunknown's Battle

#60 - A Story of Religion and Love

Jul 26th, 2020 50m 15s

A love story from Canada, featuring married couple Sana and Will Saleh. Sana is of Pakistani background, born and raised British Columbia, Canada. Her husbad Will is a born and raised Canadian and a convert/revert to Islam. In this 50-minute e

#59 - Stop Wasting Time!

Jul 9th, 2020 49m 36s

20 year old Myda Baig from Lahore is a Psychology student, and she's here tell us to stop wasting time ! Too many people are spending their days binging one movie after another, or lazing around, or not having any kind of short-term plan for su

#58 - A Muslim-Hindu Marriage Story

Jun 21st, 2020 1h 13m

Meet Hina Husain, 32 year old living in Canada, here to tell us her life story, especially a major part of her life that involves marriage. Hina had a very nontraditional marriage, because she did not get married to a Pakistani man, or a Muslim

#57 - Dana Wang Visits

Jun 14th, 2020 44m 14s

We speak to someone not actually from Pakistan. She's not of Pakistani descent either, yet she has built a connection to the country. Our guest is Dana Wang. Dana is a travel enthusiast, photographer, and food addict from Australia. She also st

#56 - The Foodie

May 31st, 2020 1h 6m

Meet Arifah, 22 year old from England. She's here to talk to us about various things, but mostly about her most passionate subject: Food. She even wrote her dissertation on food! Arifah was born in England, moved to Saudi Arabia at a young age

#55 - Can you count in Urdu?

May 18th, 2020 32m 46s

We speak to a number of Pakistani youngsters from Islamabad, Karachi, U.K., and U.A.E. to ask them : can you count to 100, in Urdu? Turns out, it's not so easy, and as we collectively become more efficient with English, it seems we are losing t

#54 - Lockdown Madness

May 5th, 2020 37m 54s

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns across the world, we wanted to catch up with our Pakistani community on Discord and ask them how they're doing. As you might have heard from previous episodes, we run a discord server which is basically a m

#53 - Zamana

Apr 21st, 2020 1h 8m

Guest: Aisha Khan, 19 year old from Toronto, Canada Aisha is here to talk to us about poetry, among other things. Aisha is a published writer and last year she released a book called Zamana, under her pen name Anaa Gulzar. We talk to her abou

#52 - PSL 2020 Breakdown

Apr 6th, 2020 1h 46m

This group discussion features 4 guests, with the topic being Cricket, especially with a focus on PSL 2020 which was suspended on March 17, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss the progression of PSL, the T20 cricket format, the sta