Episode 107 - Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian & The Selfie That Killed
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Wondery | RedHanded
4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Qandeel Baloch was a social media sensation, women’s rights activist - and a queen of controversy. In 2016 Qandeel released a series of photos and videos that she had captured with one of Pakistan’s most influential and powerful clerics. She also accused him of sexually harassing her - 25 days later Qandeel was murdered; rocking Pakistan as much in death as she had done in life.
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Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/09/qandeel-baloch-murder-pakistan-social-media-star
A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch by Sanam Maher
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Woman-Like-Her-Qandeel-Baloch/dp/152660759X
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| 1:32.5 | It's a Monday morning at 11 a.m rather than a Sunday night at 8 p.m. when I am like on peak stress alert and we're trying to say here in record. |
| 1:42.5 | This is a revelation. I just got back from a circuit training class that I went to at 9. |
| 1:47.5 | I did just get back from Boston and New York where I did my very last events for my company that I used to work for. |
| 1:53.5 | Well, I went to Boston for the event and then I went to New York just for just for roles for a couple of days with my colleague. |
| 1:58.5 | I have to tell you about what happened. So Boston, good, it was all good, great fine. |
| 2:03.5 | And then I saw one organised considering us, someone who worked in events and I was going with my colleague, Maddie. |
| 2:08.5 | Hi, Maddie, who listens and whose mum is the one that wrote us that little note to be like, |
| 2:13.5 | do Andre Chicatillo. |
| 2:15.5 | I was that home mum. |
| 2:17.5 | That was super cute. |
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