{"id":58934,"date":"2023-10-03T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/oct\/03\/resistance-rappers-the-pahnji-gang-raging-against-the-machine-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:00:34","slug":"resistance-rappers-the-pahnji-gang-raging-against-the-machine-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58934","title":{"rendered":"Resistance rappers: the Pahnji Gang raging against the machine in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two siblings are building a following among the young people of Sindh province disillusioned with the straitened status quo <\/p>\n<p>Deep in Pakistan\u2019s countryside, Sindhi Chhokri and her teenage brother Toxic Sufi are raising a few eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>Under the banner the Pahnji Gang, the siblings have also been finding an audience for their rap music in rural Sindh. \u201cGrowing up, it was hard to navigate past a string of unsaid things that did not seem right. And when we did, we would be reprimanded by the village elders,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@sindhichhokri1544\">Sindhi Chhokri<\/a>, real name Urooj Fatima, speaking from her village in Yaqoob Kapri, near Jhuddo city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/oct\/03\/resistance-rappers-the-pahnji-gang-raging-against-the-machine-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two siblings are building a following among the young people of Sindh province disillusioned with the straitened status quo Deep in Pakistan\u2019s countryside, Sindhi Chhokri and her teenage brother Toxic Sufi are raising a few eyebrows.Under the banner th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3989,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,59,425,60,2547,61,42,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-global-development","category-music","category-pakistan","category-rap","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-young-people"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58935,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58934\/revisions\/58935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}