Pod#160 - Umair Javed - How is Pakistan doing after 75 years?

A lot of people have had a lot of opinions, feelings and thoughts on Pakistan's past and present trajectories. On the eve of the country's 75th anniversary we thought we'd get somebody who has actually done research on the topic on to present a report card of sorts.    So we're joined by DOCTOR Umair Javed, Asst Prof at LUMS, to take us on a ride through history and examine multiple key facets of Pakistan and Pakistanis and how they have changed. Jump in.   Things discussed in this episode:   00:00 Intro  01:59 Sweaty beginnings  04:43 Who is Umair why is he talking about this  10:11 People have really short attention spans for news and issues, social media has made it worse  15:17 What did Pakistan’s population distribution look like in the early 1950s?  19:18 Most people have a hard time grasping HOW MANY people live in Pakistan  22:34 How and why has Pakistan’s population distribution changed from the 1950s to today?  27:47 What people used to eat in Pakistan and the shawarma+zinger+pizza revolution  33:42 How Pakistanis started to eat WAY MORE MEAT and why that matters  39:06 People are moving from rural to urban areas. How’s that working out for them?  41:41 How Pakistan’s economy and industry have worsened over the decades  47:44 How much of Pakistan’s problems can we genuinely blame on leadership?  51:37 Were things EVER on a better trajectory in our past? What changed?  55:39 How the spread of technology revolutionized religion & religiosity in Pakistan  1:01:59 FORTY PERCENT of the population is under 19. Do they have a future?  1:09:39 Pakistani society keeps women at home and out of the workplace, how can that change?  1:16:32 Desperately searching for signs of optimism with a complete damper at the end  1:24:31 An amazing Jinn story! 1:30:49 Outro   LINKS:  "Cuisine and Culture" - https://www.dawn.com/news/1623998  "Moral Panic" - https://www.dawn.com/news/1623998  Umair's work with Dawn: https://www.dawn.com/authors/498/umair-javed  Umair's Twitter: https://twitter.com/umairjav   Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)!   Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below!  SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod  Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan