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On Thursday's PM, Hugh's report from Pakistan was about the dominant version of Islam that's followed there - Sufism - and why 'mainstream' Sunni Islamists disapprove of Sufism. Here are some of his photographs and words to go with that:
Sublime, ethereal music
The Father of the Taliban, Maulana Sami ul Haq, who says Islam forbids Sufi dancing, and what he told me was the 'idolatry' practised
The Maulana's classroom at the Dar ul Uloom Haqqania madrassa at Akora Khattak near Peshawar. 1,500 students.
They listen intently as the Maulana emphasises the peaceful nature of Islam.
He also warns them about the damage alcohol can cause to the human body, and to family relationships.
Many Taliban leaders are graduates of the madrassa, including Mullah Omar the leader of the Afghan Taliban.
Intent study of the Koran.
There is deep suspicion here of western values, which are seen as decadent. One student said to me, "Whenever the West interfere overseas, they create new enemies - that is the Golden Rule."
The Islamabad family: l to r: Maqbool Shah, Shaheena Shah, Khalida Shaikh, Aleena Shah (nearly 12) and the Col. (retd) Masud Akhtar Shaikh.
As I said last night: "At least twelve people have been killed in two bomb attacks on thousands of Muslim pilgrims attending festivals in Pakistan - in Lahore and in Karachi."
Hugh reported: "Today is the climax of a massive Shia festival - Arbaeen - and the holy day of a Sufi saint in Lahore. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. And you can't stop suicide bombers. Checkpoints are also easy targets. But this could have been a lot worse. In Lahore and Karachi most of the dead were policemen, challenging the bombers before they could reach the most crowded places.
But the news from here is so often so bad that some people are in despair. I've been back to see the Islamabad family who you may have heard on PM several times before over the past ten years - banker Maqbool Shah, his wife - reporter Shaheena Shah, nurse Khalida Shaikh and retired colonel, and translator of Turkish poetry into English, Masud Akhtar Shaikh: I met them before today's bloody events, but they won't have been remotely surprised by them":
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There's been a big blog response to our Dominic Raab interview.
We thought you might want to hear the full interview. Because it was recorded very close to transmission and then had to fit into a very busy programme, we broadcast less than three minutes. Here's the unedited version:
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This week's Your News bulletin on iPM will be read by none other than Jonathan Charles:
Send a sentence about your week to iPM@bbc.co.uk, and Jonathan could be reading it out.
over an article at Politics Home by the Conservative MP .
In it he argues: "Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots." He criticises "Labour's outdated and obsolete 'equality and diversity' agenda."
He'll be on PM tonight.
TUESDAY UPDATE: There is the full version of Mr Raab's interview here.
Hugh reported from Pakistan on Broadcasting House and on The World This Weekend on Sunday - about The Rising Tide exhibition of contemporary Pakistan art, in Karachi - and about 'liberals' worried about the future of tolerance after the assassination of the former governor of Punjab Salman Taseer on January 4th.
Hope. Graffiti in Karachi.
Mohatta Palace, Karachi. The Rising Tide exhibition continues for another five weeks.
Sara Khan, with two of her 'qaidas' - the Pashto word for alphabet books for children. The Pashto for parrot is pleasing: shandoddi.
Detail of one of the (ironic) qaidas. Emailed to me by the artist. Thank you!
Exhibition curator, Naiza Khan in front of Lahore artist Imran Channa's 'Find the real Jinnah'. The founding president of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, said: 'You may belong to any religion, caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state.'
'Flying Carpet of Drones' (detail) by Abdullah Syed. It's a mobile of sixty-one drones (no significance to that number) made of blades from box-cutter knives, like the knives allowed through security and onto the planes that were flown into the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.
Visiting the exhibition, accountant Abdul Khaled, his wife Tizvana and their children. The drone attacks, he told me, "are not good, because of the civilians who are killed. "The technology is not being used correctly."
Liberal Pakistan. One of numerous multi-language bookshops here.
The audience at a memorial event in Karachi for Salman Taseer.
Security for the event. Two other organisations cancelled the event because of 'threats'. The Pakistan Medical Association refused to be intimidated.
In Islamabad, a tribute to Salman Taseer across the road from where he was murdered.
The Islamabad Greeners, in the nets. One of their bowlers said the extremists would only be defeated by force: "We cannot change their minds".
Education is the key.
And security.
But if the anti-terrorist squad have to go to a public car wash......
Hundreds and hundreds of emails arrived in response to Andrew Lansley week on PM.
Many listeners' views were put to England's Health Secretary on yesterday's PM. On iPM we invited two listeners with years of experience in the health profession to offer their take on the proposed changes to the NHS.
Professor Jonathan Edwards has recently resigned as a Professor of Medicine at London's University College Hospital. He says he "could not provide proper care for patients", and he feels that "the changes proposed look likely to make things far far worse".
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John Spray however, "awaits the outcome with interest". He has experience of managing GP budgets.
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If there's a question you'd like to put to Andrew Lansley, you can email this special address pmquestions [at] dh.gsi.gov.uk
You can hear the full iPM on our podcast page.
And if there's something you'd like to hear on the programme, email ipm [at] bbc.co.uk
...you can email him at this special address: pmquestions@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Not a real hospital
What did you think of our radio experiment?
Every night we try to explain an increasingly complex world. You're very familiar with the conventions. There is a government announcement followed by a quick five minute interview in which the presenter questions the politician.
At PM we try not to get sucked into slavishly following even our own routines. So when we saw the scale of Andrew Lansley's plans for health in England, we embarked on a different approach. Not one five minute interview, but four ten minute interviews, with listeners getting their own opportunity tonight to challenge Mr Lansley directly.
Please let us know what you think. in The Guardian today thinks my questions to Mr Lansley were a bit feeble. You might agree. Feel free to leave your comment, whether positive or negative, by clicking on Comments at the top of this post.
But MOST IMPORTANTLY (sorry for going upper case) I'd love to hear how you would improve on our little experiment. Are there other topics which deserve this treatment in a nightly news programme? Is five days too much? Would you like more or less time for listeners' questions? All constructive ideas welcome.
Let us know.
Hugh reported from Karachi on Tuesday's PM. He'll be back on BH on Sunday. Here are his photographs from Pakistan's commercial capital, which he found a lot more welcoming and calm than its usual media image of gunbattles and bombs would suggest:
Clifton Beach, Karachi, sweet corn seller
Clifton Beach, happy family
Clifton Beach, take my picture please Uncle. Paani Puri stall (hollow crispy fried unleavened bread)
International Karachi
Karachi Eagle
Karachi friendly
Karachi rickshaw
Karachi imperial echo
Karachi cricket bat merchants
Karachi like America
Karachi monkey man
Karachi poverty. Cold winter nights
Cheerful children
Take our picture Mister
And ours too please
Karachi history
Karachi sunset
FROM COLIN BLANE, GLASGOW NEWSROOM
Vets in Stirling have found a mobile phone in a puppy's stomach. The six-month-old golden retriever had to have emergency surgery. The dog managed to eat the phone without its owner realising. Paula Connelly from Stirling knew her puppy Sam was out of sorts but couldn't work out why. She wondered if the dog might have swallowed a small doll but an X-ray didn't show anything. It was only during an exploratory operation that the vet thought she could feel a mobile phone. The toy doll was removed at the same time.
Mrs Connelly said she knew her mobile was missing but she never thought the puppy might have eaten it. She says the phone company couldn't believe it when she told them her dog had eaten her mobile.
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Got a question for Mr Lansley? Email pm@bbc.co.uk
Justin's doing Your News. Get the flags out
Our colleague Justin Webb has had an eventful week - but what about you?
Even if it's been pretty uneventful - tell us about it by email in ONE sentence. We'll put the best of them together into our Your News bulletin, and Justin himself will read it on this week's iPM.
Please send your sentence to ipm@bbc.co.uk
Tonight we got an overview from Mr Lansley and talked in detail about GPs.
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On Tuesday we'll discuss what his changes mean for patients. On Wednesday, what the competition will do to the NHS and on Thursday, accountability.
If you have a question for Mr Lansley which we could put to him on Friday's programme, please email PM@bbc.co.uk.
Mr Lansley in our super-patriotic PM studio. (not really)
On Friday, you have the chance to ask questions too.
In the meantime, from , an article to whet your appetite.
As many of the Christmas homeless shelters close for another year, one shelter in the London borough of Hackney is just opening. For the last seven years, Tigger Cullinan (above) has helped run with a band of volunteers.
At first they had problems with alcohol and threatening behaviour, but these days, they no longer need a bouncer on the door. Tigger thinks it's because of the approach they take.
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The place for serious conversation about serious things.
If you have a sentence of news about your week, please send it to ipm@bbc.co.uk.
Who knows - Kay could be reading it out in Saturday's iPM.
After our item on Friday about this story we got this email from a listener:
Can I please blame my parents?
Listening to you in Ireland. Good thoughts to your production team
Nerys Williams"
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You can read more and you'll hear more about it on PM tonight.
Penny.
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If as a result of hearing today's programme you're looking for help or information, the Radio 4 Action Line suggests these:
Stonewall Housing provides housing advice to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people of all ages through a weekday telephone helpline and 3 weekly drop-in surgeries in different venues across London. The advice has been awarded the Legal Services Commission's Quality Mark and covers a range of issues such as, homophobic and transphobic harassment, domestic abuse, homelessness, succession, repossession and insecure, substandard or overcrowded accommodation. Stonewall Housing also chairs the Older LGBT Housing Group, made up of organisations and individuals who aim to improve housing, care and support services and scope the development of specific services for older LGBT people. For free, confidential advice please call 020 7359 5767 or email info@stonewallhousing.org or for more information click .
The Social Care Institute for Excellence have five films pointing social care workers and managers in the direction of good practice when providing social care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. For more information, click . If you run a care home and want advise on this issue, please ring SCIE on 020 7089 6840. How dignity, respect and inclusion are paramount for partners and carers of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. Watch Roger's story
Broken Rainbow UK runs the only National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Domestic Violence Helpline providing confidential support to all members of the LGBT communities, their family and friends, and agencies supporting them. Our trained helpline workers help with building a safety plan, discuss housing options, give general information about legal rights, local support services, discuss making a police report and provide confidential listening support. Contact them on 0300 999 5428 on Mondays from 2pm - 8pm, Wednesday from 10am - 1pm and Thursday from 2pm - 8pm, or log on .
The Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide. Contact the Samaritans by phone on 08457 90 90 90, 24 hours a day, or log on .
If you're a young person and you're considering suicide, or you feel depressed or like you're not coping with life, HOPELineUK, provided by the organisation PAPYRUS, is a confidential helpline service staffed by trained professionals who can give support, practical advice and information. You can call the helpline on 0800 068 41 41. Lines are open Monday to Friday from 10am until 5pm and again from 7pm until 10pm, and between 2pm until 5pm at the weekend. PAPYRUS can also offer help and advice if you're concerned about someone you know. You'll also find them online .
Penny.
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You can hear more in iPM this Saturday on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4. Tune in at 0545 or 1730 or download the programme to enjoy at your leisure.
Last week on PM, one of the interviews we broadcast had a particularly big response. Listeners wrote to say they found it "inspirational", "uplifting" "very moving", "incredible" and "truly extraordinary" and asked for it to be made available to listen again.
Daniel Biddle (pictured right) was a commuter in the same tube carriage as one of the 7/7 London bombers. Daniel survived but was left with terrible injuries. He owes his life to a South African man called Adrian Heili, who risked his own life to save Daniel's.
PM's reporter Jon Manel brought the Daniel and Adrian together for their first joint broadcast interview.
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Happy New Year.
Thanks for the hundreds of nominations we received for an iPM Honour. We've featured just a few of the nominees on our programmes in recent weeks and we hope to talk to more.
We've chosen a winner and you'll hear more about her in next week's programme. In the meantime you can listen again or download our special Honours programme on the iPM podcast page.
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If you sent a nomination and haven't heard from us yet, don't worry. We'll do our best to respond as soon as we can. Thanks again.
Everything we do on the programme starts with a listener suggestion. If you've an idea or an experience you'd like to share with us email ipm [@] bbc.co.uk
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