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Journalist, researcher | Previously at @BBC, @AJEnglish and @dawn_com. Here’s my soundcloud 👇🏽

Joined February 2010
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📢Historic milestone! PSI and Workers Education & Research Organisation (WERO) proudly launch the Pakistan Community Health Workers Federation (PCHWF), a national union empowering #CommunityHealthWorkers with a unified voice for their rights, decent work & fair pay. #TradeUnion
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It’s an Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan kinda morning
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Some news: I’ve joined the BBC’s East Africa bureau 🥂
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My latest work, out now on @AJEnglish. In this episode of #Mindset, @drewambrose, Lee Ali and I travel to Jamaica to explore how psychedelic mushrooms are being used for therapy. Big thanks to the entire @AJ101East team. 🧠 x 🍄: aje.io/mindset
A psychedelic boom in an unregulated market... What could go wrong? In a new series exploring mental health approaches around the world, #AJMindset examines Jamaica’s push to be a world leader in ‘magic mushroom’ therapy: aje.io/mindset
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One of India’s top female athletes, @SakshiMalik, looks back at her sensational journey, from training with boys to winning an Olympic medal. Find out more in our latest episode: aje.io/indfighters
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Exciting news! A film I worked on last year nominated for an Emmy 🙃 special congrats to @drewambrose @aq_koh @nick_olle @sharonroobol @Andalalucha and Craig Hansen.
Thrilled to have our film 'Welcome to Iztapalapa' nominated for a @newsemmys in the Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish category. Watch how public art programmes and sporting facilities are transforming Mexico City’s Iztapalapa neighbourhood: aje.io/iztapalapa
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Nobody should “have” an endangered Himalayan Red Panda. Lakh lanat ✋
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On the up side: Everybody gets a chance to be a runway model!
Airports are nations take-off points. This is how we are taking off.
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Hmm don’t know about this. Gourmet set a pretty high bar with their lemon tarts.
Meet Fatma. GNN’s first AI presenter.
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The International Seabed Authority and its 168 members have yet to agree regulations governing the industry. The 9 July deadline for the quasi-UN body to adopt regulations came and went, meaning commercial deep-sea mining could proceed without new rules.
🚨 URGENT: We can't ignore the threat of #DeepSeaMining any longer! Watch this – written and performed by artist #JoshuaIdehen – to learn more. RT & call on governments to take action for our #BluePlanet! 🌍🤝 #ThinkDeeply
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This week on 101 East, we’re investigating Sahul Hameed, how he came to be one of India’s most notorious red sandalwood smugglers and the global efforts to bring him to justice. Watch: aje.io/sandalwood
Accused of being one of India’s most notorious timber traffickers, Sahul Hameed, is reportedly living large in Dubai. Can Indian law enforcement agencies and Interpol bring him to justice? 101 East follows the hunt: aje.io/sandalwood
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NORTHERN WHITE RHINO EMBRYO UPDATE Fantastic news as FIVE new embryos and new surrogate mothers added to the Northern White Rhino rescue project! Thread 👇
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Saw them a few weeks ago. Lovely animals!
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This week on 101 East, my colleagues @ali_fowle & @MedhaviArora investigate allegations China is operating secret “police stations” around the world: aje.io/chinapolice @SafeguardDefend’s report on this is also quite eye-opening.
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Best thing about Pakistani politics is that we have a reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.
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Hasham Kabir Cheema retweeted
A UN team is still tracking down former Habyarimana officials responsible for Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Good. But why is there no follow-through on the 2010 UN Mapping Report, detailing atrocities by AFDL rebels and Kagame's army in Congo's forests? theguardian.com/world/2023/m…
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