June 4, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A mysterious encounter with the sinister Colonel Tariq, thought to be from Pakistani Intelligence, is described by Aamer Ahmed Khan. Tim Whewell's in the Sinai Desert finding a roaring trade in rifles. A guided tour of Benghazi with Andrew Hosken: he is told that Colonel Gaddafi couldn't make the railways run on time -- he couldn't make the railways either! An acute housing shortage in Beijing is described by Martin Patience - it's meant people living in air raid shelters, bunkers and tunnels. And there's joy and some plum brandy in the foothills of the Carpathians as Caroline Juler joins a cheerful crowd of farmers at their annual measuring of sheep's milk.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there you're about to hear from our own correspondent a download from the BBC. |
| 0:04.7 | We make editions of the programme for both the BBC World Service and Radio 4, and this is the |
| 0:09.3 | latest Radio 4 broadcast, as ever, it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:14.0 | Today there's a sinister phone call from Pakistani intelligence. |
| 0:18.4 | We find the price of a Kalashnikov shooting up in the mountains and desert of Sinai. A game of two halves in Benghazi as |
| 0:25.6 | football fans get their own back on the Godaffes. And we learn they may be poor out |
| 0:30.6 | there on the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains, but they certainly know |
| 0:34.9 | how to have a good time. |
| 0:37.5 | We will not shut our voices down. |
| 0:39.6 | Those were the words of one Pakistani journalist at the funeral this week of a colleague |
| 0:43.8 | Salim Shahzad whose mutilated body was found near Islamabad on Tuesday. |
| 0:48.8 | Pakistan's main intelligence agency, the ISI, has denied accusations that it was responsible for the killing |
| 0:56.2 | which has been condemned around the world. |
| 0:58.6 | Ahmer Ahmed Khan, who now works for the BBC World Service, says journalists in Pakistan are well aware |
| 1:05.5 | that their activities are closely monitored by the authorities. I got a call |
| 1:10.9 | one day from a gentleman who introduced himself as Colonel Tarek. |
| 1:15.0 | Now in Pakistan, getting a call from anyone who calls himself Kana Tarek is usually bad news. |
| 1:21.0 | Somehow you instinctively know that the name is not real and the call means trouble. |
| 1:25.8 | Now that was way back in 2001 just a few days after a magazine I was editing ran a cover story |
| 1:32.4 | entitled the IS-S-I-Taliban Nexus. Clearly someone in the inter-services |
| 1:37.4 | intelligence wasn't happy. I often read your magazine Hamishahib, the caller said, sounding completely relaxed and cordial. |
| 1:45.0 | I murmured a thank you, wondering when he would get to the point. |
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