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How a Pakistani rescue became a Hollywood Thriller – and what it took to get there
“When you take Pakistanis and frame them as action heroes rather than victims, that is an act of subversion… that burden of explanation, making ourselves legible, and continuously explaining context – that is a disservice to us… I’m not going to do a social justice poverty porn for you.” In August 2023, a cable car carrying eight people – six of them schoolboys on their way to class – snapped two of its three supporting cables and hung for 14 hours, 900 feet above a ravine in Battagram. It wasn’t just Pakistan watching the incident unfold – it was the world. Like many, filmmaker Mohammed Ali N...
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