After reading and hearing mostly negative news out of Pakistan, Aisha Chowdhry wanted to know what was really happening on the ground. She bought a camera and tripod, and traveled to Lahore, with Google as her only guide to shooting video.
Born in Pakistan and fluent in Urdu, she had an urge to tell man-on-the-street stories through a documentary film. Pakistan: Inside the Tinder Box, the end result of more than 100 interviews she made over four weeks in 2009, shows the “smiles and tears of ordinary folks—students, teachers, slum dwellers and musicians—struggling with terrorism.â€
“I had wanted to be in journalism when I was younger," Chowdhry said. "I would stand in front of the mirror and pretend like I was anchoring the news, but I knew nothing of what journalism really was.â€
In this podcast, she tells It's All Journalism producers Anna Miars and Michael O'Connell about her work as a stringer for Reuters, covering Pakistan and American troops in Afghanistan.
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