Karachi, Lyari, Altaf Hussain, MQM and PPP - Laurent Gayer on the Struggle for the City - #TPE 274

<p> Laurent Gayer comes on the Pakistan Experience to discuss his book, &quot;Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City&quot;, Student Politics, MQM, PPP, JI, Altaf Hussain, PTM, Benazir&#39;s Assassination, Delhi and Paris. Laurent Gayer is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies (CERI-Sciences Po), Paris. For the past twenty years, he has been investigating urban transformations, social struggles and political conflicts in Karachi. His main publications include Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City (Hurst, 2014), and the forthcoming Gunpoint Capitalism: Enforcing Corporate Order in Karachi (Hurst, 2024) The Pakistan Experience is an independently produced podcast looking to tell stories about Pakistan through conversations. Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepakistanexperience To support the channel: Jazzcash/Easypaisa - 0325 -2982912 Patreon.com/thepakistanexperience And Please stay in touch: https://twitter.com/ThePakistanExp1https://www.facebook.com/thepakistanexperiencehttps://instagram.com/thepakistanexpeperience The podcast is hosted by comedian and writer, Shehzad Ghias Shaikh. Shehzad is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters in Theatre from Brooklyn College. He is also one of the foremost Stand-up comedians in Pakistan and frequently writes for numerous publications. Instagram.com/shehzadghiasshaikh Facebook.com/Shehzadghias/ Twitter.com/shehzad89 Chapters 0:00 Introduction 2:30 Finding order in Karachi’s chaos, MQM and military involvement 13:20 Student politics and Jamat e Islami, history of the region and who wrote it, creation of the muhajir identity 30:03 Using autobiographies as a source, Karachi’s motorcycle culture, conspiracy theories, Altaf Hussain and Punjab 40:07 Economic anxiety &amp; pashtoon-muhajir conflict, partition and its impact on Karachi 51:17 the good old times, and protests in France compared to Karachi 1:04:05 PTM, Aurat March and impacts of social mobilization, global prot