7 billion neighbors

Living in an “artificial” city: Islamabad

Audio 48:30

View of Islamabad Pakistan © Pixabay CC0 Akphotos1021

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

This week, 7 billion neighbors take you in their suitcases to discover cities around the world.

Town planning, society, transport, leisure: from Islamabad to Tunis via Rio de Janeiro, RFI correspondents and our guests present the daily life of our neighbours.

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Branch, Islamabad Pakistan.

Built in the 1960s, the Pakistani capital is unlike any other city in the country: green, rather clean, wide avenues, bordered by high green hills that are very pleasant for treks: the margalas.

Nothing to do with the immense megalopolises of Pakistan like Lahore and Karachi.

Pleasant to live in, without traffic jams, the city of Islamabad is almost artificial in the Pakistani landscape. 

Built for the middle class and the elites, Islamabad is administrative and political, located very far from the sea, while Karachi is the economic lung of the country, on the Arabian Sea.

With :

Solène Chalvon-Fioriti

, freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker.

Author of 

(Flammarion, 2022)

Musical programming:

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Nusrat Ali Khan

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Atif Aslam

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