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Shehzad Hameed Ahmad

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Freelance Journalist | Pakistan

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Media & News CompanyPlanet Earth. linkedin.com/in/ahmadshehza…Joined May 2013

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My documentary🚨 "Pakistan's Heat Storm"🚨 won at the Golden Earth Film Awards 2022 in India. We filmed Pakistan's brutal heatwave in July, decimating ice-sheets, flooding 2/3rds of the country, costing $40 billion in damages. Full Doc: lnkd.in/e9p9qhWB #ClimateCrisis

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From launching Pakistan's private news industry to banning them all in an emergency, he lived a life full of contradictions. From bravely saving his troops in Chawinda to abandoning them in Kargil, he led Pakistan in a direction where it could never recover from #PervezMusharaf

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's Asia First to discuss my upcoming documentary series "The Mass Extinction". By 2100, an estimated 50% of all the world’s species: up to 1 million animals and plant species are at risk of extinction because of climate change. Premieres tonight at 9!

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Pakistani filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad has clinched the Green Image award for his documentary film ‘Pakistan’s Himalayan Meltdown’ at the 8th Green Image Film Festival in Tokamachi City, Japan.

Pakistani Filmmaker Shehzad Hameed's "Himalayan Meltdown" Documentary Wins In Japan

ISLAMABAD: (PR) Singapore-based Pakistani filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad has clinched the Green Image award for his documentary film 'Pakistan's Himalayan Meltdown' at the 8th Green Image Film...

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I travelled thousands of miles to meet the #Munduruku tribe in #Brazil's Para state to investigate how illegal gold miners have invaded and destroyed trees in their protected reserves near the #Tapajos River. Full Documentary: Brazil's Amazonian Battle: channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-

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Salman Taseer was killed 12 yrs ago by an extremist for demanding Asia Bibi's release. My documentary "Islam's Battle Within" filmed in Pakistan/Indonesia investigates Islam's weaponisation in South Asia and its impact on religious minorities 🚨Full Doc🚨: youtube.com/watch?v=bE00eK

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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon was up 150% in Bolsonaro’s last month. But 2023 could mark a turning point for the Amazon rainforest. New political leaders in Brazil and Colombia have promised to protect the rainforest, raising hope of saving its ecosystem from becoming savannah

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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon was up 150% in Bolsonaro’s last month. But 2023 could mark a turning point for the Amazon rainforest. New political leaders in Brazil and Colombia have promised to protect the rainforest, raising hope of saving its ecosystem from becoming savannah

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🚨 Next Documentary 🚨The Crisis After The Floods, I revisit Sindh and Southern Punjab to meet Pakistanis grappling with disease and malnutrition. 8 million animals killed, 2 million acres of crops destroyed and 5000 km of roads gone, can they rebuild?

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Trailer: The Crisis After The Floods featuring

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Trailer: The Crisis After The Floods featuring

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⁩ Ahmed highlighted the Islamophobic motives of right-wing groups in India through his documentary titled India's Saffron Brigade but also won an award at the Association of International Broadcasting Award 2022.’ #RSS 🇮🇳

Pakistani filmmaker wins big at London

'India's Saffron Bridge' investigates reasons behind weaponisation of Hinduism by the RSS

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🚨 Next Documentary 🚨The Crisis After The Floods, I revisit Sindh and Southern Punjab to meet Pakistanis grappling with disease and malnutrition. 8 million animals killed, 2 million acres of crops destroyed and 5000 km of roads gone, can they rebuild?

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Waking up to delicious breakfast in countryside Colombia 😊

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Replying to @AsYouNotWish

Fake News!! Thats the Omar [Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation] Museum. Images from my 2018 visit: a collection of Soviet era aircrafts, bombs, mines and guns used across wars in Afghanistan to educate school groups to detect/avoid unexploded ordnance.

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My name is Shehzad, not Pakistan. I only represent humanity when I film the grave human rights abuses in India. But thanks.

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Thanks to Hindutva thugs, Pakistan, which for decades has been brutalising its own minorities, now gets to credibly speak about Islamophobia in India, and the world listens. What a shame tribune.com.pk/story/2394803/

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On

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, discussing the rise of Modi/RSS and impact on Indian Muslims in my documentary "India's Saffron Brigade". For 3rd straight year, US Commission wants India be put on religious freedom blacklist while Sweden's V-Dem Institute's called it "electoral autocracy"

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"Shehzad Hameed Ahmad's ‘In Bad Faith’ investigates connections between populist nationalism, religion, and violence against minorities across India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Myanmar to spread majoritarianism" theprint.in/go-to-pakistan Thanks

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theprint.inPakistani film on ‘Hindu nationalism’ is just one part. Series looks at Islamic right-wing too'India’s Saffron Brigade', winner of an International award and first of a three-part documentary series ‘In Bad Faith’ by Shehzad Hameed Ahmad, turns its gaze on the growing communal divide in India.

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, discussing the rise of Modi/RSS and impact on Indian Muslims in my documentary "India's Saffron Brigade". For 3rd straight year, US Commission wants India be put on religious freedom blacklist while Sweden's V-Dem Institute's called it "electoral autocracy"

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Thrilled that my documentary film “India's Saffron Brigade” has been honoured with the Highly Commended award at the prestigious @theaibstv Association for International Broadcasting Awards 2022, held at Church house Westminster, London. Full Documentary: youtu.be/l1qvVp8XZg8 pic.twitter.com/zi2Uxo7NZhShow this thread

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Waking up to delicious breakfast in countryside Colombia 😊

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'India's Saffron Brigade',

's documentary on the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, won big at the London Film Festival. #londonfilmfestival #documentary

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Meet the Pakistani filmmaker who documented Islamophobia in India

'India’s Saffron Brigade', the first of the three-part docu-series won the 2022 Association of International Broadcasting Award at the London Film Festival.

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Thank you

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India's Saffron Brigade [Full Documentary]:

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youtube.comHinduism, Weaponised: A Secular India Under Threat | In Bad Faith -...We investigate the reasons behind the weaponisation of Hinduism by the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing, paramilitary volunteer organisation th...

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Several Afghan cricketers in a group photo with global terrorist Sirajuddin Haqqani, who has a US State Department bounty of USD 10 million dollars, all supporting the ban against Afghan women. Well done

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! No to gender aparthied. #AfghanWomen

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Cricket! The only hope for the country. Keep politics out of it. @CricketAus @BBL @ACBofficials

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Shehzad Hameed Ahmad is a Pakistani-Colombian freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker and graduate of Bahria University with experience that spans over 18 years, directing over 40 documentary films across Brazil, Bangladesh, etc. #Alumni #BU

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Congrats #ExchangeAlumni and filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad for winning Silver at the World Media Festival 2021 for his documentary, “Australia’s Coal Conundrum"! We can't wait to watch the film! ow.ly/YRs550EQHSA

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"Singapore-based Pakistani filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad’s documentary titled ‘Saving Indonesia's Citarum’ has won the Best Feature Documentary award at the prestigious Tagore Film Festival 2021 in Bolpur, India." Saving Indonesia's Citarum: youtube.com/watch?v=WqOyR6 #Indonesia

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Fulbright scholar and award-winning filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad, featured in United Women Singapore’s Boys Empowered Campaign. He shared with us “He aims to build a new generation of male leaders who will model strength without violence & serve as positive change-makers.

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Inside Militant Buddhism [Part 3]:

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Islam's Battle Within [Part 2]:

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India's Saffron Brigade [Part 1]:

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Congratulations to our

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Thanks @etribune. "Filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad highlighted the islamophobic motives of right-wing groups in India through his documentary titled India's Saffron Brigade but also won an award at the Association of International Broadcasting Award 2022." tribune.com.pk/story/2394803/ pic.twitter.com/KZQmfbld3BShow this thread

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Thrilled that my documentary film “India's Saffron Brigade” has been honoured with the Highly Commended award at the prestigious

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