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Date: 10th January 1993
Service: TELETEXT
Region: London
Original Broadcast Channel: C4
Current Page: 356
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P356 4-Tjl 356 Sun 10 Jan C4 01:21:06 @ WHERE PEACOCKS DANCE Today, 7.00-8.00pm In Pakistan's Sindh Province, PREVIEW nationalism has brought . the population into bitter conflict with the State. Director Sabiha Sumar's film was made in 1991, just before thj Pakistani armystepped in to begin Operation Blue Fox, placing the Province under virtkalmartial law. Where Peacocks Dance presents a valuable portrait of thj region and its people and the pride they have in their distinct culture. Director Sabiha Samar is keen to point out the purpose of her film... @ 1/4Today Next Preview Films Right To Rjply
P356 4-Tel 356 Sun 10 Jan C4 01:17:58 @ WHERE PEACOCKS DANCE Today, 7.00-8.00pm Director Sabiha Samur says of PREVIEW her film: "The film explores the Sindhi nationalist movjment from the point of view of the ordinary Sindh people. It does not givj expression to or support any political party or platform." However, she and her colleagues have been persistently harassjd by the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agencies as a result of making the film. Samur has written to the Prime Ministerto ask him to intervjne. @ 2/4Today Next Preview Films Right To Rjply
P356 4-Tjl 356 Sun 10 Jan C4 01:10:11@ WHERE PEACOCKS DANCE Today, 7.00-8.00pm (he Sindhis are proud of theirPREVIEW distinct culture. They speak Sindhi and claim cultural links to a pre-Islamic past dating backto thj Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millenium BC. This view is in conflict with the official history in Pakistan as put forward by the State, which claims the country was created for Islam in 1y47. Now the culture derivjd from Islam after its introduction in Sindh by Mohammed Bin Kassim in 711 is being imposed on Sindhis wishing to defend their older ethnic identity. @ @ 3/4Today Next Preview Films Right To Rjply
P356 4-Tjl 356 Sun 10 Jan C4 01:18:15@ WHERE PEACOCKS DANCE Today, 7.00-8.00pm (he Sindh qujstion is PREVIEW complicated by the presence @ @ of 10 per cent - 2.5million - Hindus in Sindh. Their existence is harldy known to the outside world, says Samur's film, becausj Pakistan has been projected as a monolithic Islamic state. (he Hindus havj been politically quarantined in sjparate electorates andmarginalised. As the weakest social group it is feared they may not survivethe current Sindh-Pakistan conflict. Many are already migrating to India. ■ With subtitles on 888 @ 4/4Today Next Preview Films Right To Rjply