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[00:00:00] It could have started. If it's your will, you can do such a thing.
[00:00:04] He said, "You are doing a very good thing. You are bringing a very good idea," but that thing
[00:00:07] could not happen. Now, on these 12 districts,
[00:00:10] they agreed with us during the negotiations that yes, emergency should be imposed here, we are with you
[00:00:14] because the situation there is such
[00:00:18] that these 12 districts should be normalized,
[00:00:21] life should be brought back, the issues of the people there are also very
[00:00:25] many, plus the terrorism there is
[00:00:29] at its extreme.
[00:00:32] But if no one was ready to stand with us, if anyone was
[00:00:36] even hesitant to meet with us, that this picture or something
[00:00:40] has to be met secretly, I have met them
[00:00:43] so many times,
[00:00:45] you might not even know, but I never said that
[00:00:49] a picture has to be released or anything, because they said that it creates problems for those people. We said
[00:00:52] no, we have clarity
[00:00:55] on one thing, that we don't want to bring politics into this.
[00:00:57] The third most important thing
[00:01:03] is that in no
[00:01:06] way can the federation have one foreign policy and
[00:01:10] the province have another foreign policy. It cannot work.
[00:01:13] And there you saw how many
[00:01:16] times what our stance was and what their stance
[00:01:19] was, and this kept happening again and again, not once but many times.
[00:01:23] Their
[00:01:27] connections with the Taliban are
[00:01:31] no secret. I
[00:01:35] the circumstances demanded if the provincial will not say anything else. Four or five of you plan
[00:01:39] that there is a constitutional breakdown now and go around these districts. If Allah keeps you safe and brings
[00:01:42] you back,
[00:01:45] issued by the President it's difficult to come back, because the situation there is actually bad at this time,
[00:01:48] which needs to be fixed. But those
[00:01:51] to that, people took out a whole procession and didn't say anything to
[00:01:55] one person. This is not a normal thing. On one hand,
[00:01:59] a day before, there
[00:02:25] it is and what its
[00:02:30] is a provincial government, it might not even be ready for its ownership.
[00:02:32] This
[00:02:35] was happening regularly on a daily basis.
[00:02:38] There
[00:02:41] is a lot of discrepancy between the police's resources and their
[00:02:45] to be called in the coming days, figures and our figures. They say we gave, we say
[00:02:48] you gave the money, you wrote it down, but whether they practically received it or
[00:02:52] not, that was the problem for us.
[00:02:55] that you also have Terrorism you cannot
[00:02:59] fight alone in any situation. You have to fight it together. Now we had
[00:03:03] only two options, either we would continue to have martyrs
[00:03:06] on a daily basis or end this thing.
[00:03:09] So this
[00:03:13] difficult decision we have made
[00:03:16] has a proper background.
[00:03:20] We tried
[00:03:22] you. As the Honorable Minister of Interior as much as possible to avoid
[00:03:25] it.
[00:03:26] two different aspects If terrorism has increased by 1%
[00:03:30] in about a year and a half,
[00:03:33] then that is not a small thing.
[00:03:37] And martyrdoms have also increased by 113% in about
[00:03:41] 31 months. You can take anything.
[00:03:45] 518 policemen
[00:03:47] have been martyred in the last year and a half, from January 2024.
[00:03:51] And you
[00:03:54] say that no, we have given you the budget,
[00:03:56] we have given you a budget of 20 billion. Hey brother,
[00:04:01] a full-fledged war is being waged against you. Now if you say that we have done a great favor to the police by giving 20 billion, you
[00:04:04] have given salary and other things, then I don't think
[00:04:08] it is appropriate. So the second
[00:04:11] thing is that your point of view is that
[00:04:15] no, we will first define the terrorist whether he is a terrorist or not. If a person is firing
[00:04:20] in D.I. Khan Mardan. So he is a very at you, martyring your people, then
[00:04:23] you will sit for definition on that too. Well, there were many
[00:04:26] My sister, Samar Haroon Bilour, problems that were related to their governor,
[00:04:29] education, but we do in policies. but we, personally, our
[00:04:32] Ministry of Interior's point of view was very clear that this whole thing
[00:04:35] has 0% to do with politics, and we were
[00:04:38] purely looking at it on the basis of terrorism,
[00:04:42] and we wanted to bring them on board only on the basis of terrorism,
[00:04:46] that if they come with us on this, it would be very good. And believe me, if that
[00:04:50] about the imposition of emergency, agreement had happened that day, this situation would not have existed today. Even after that, if
[00:04:53] even last night if they had said yes, this would not have happened,
[00:04:57] the entire leadership. You must
[00:05:05] ask them who were the people who were their masterminds who were sabotaging
[00:05:09] everything and how
[00:05:14] they would agree with us and after that, whether it is the People's
[00:05:17] Party or PMLN, delegations of both were present. You ask both of them,
[00:05:21] so we were forced to do this.
[00:05:24] And if Allah wills, once
[00:05:27] this detailed law minister will tell
[00:05:31] you that after the things that have been imposed today, I am only praying to Allah that Allah
[00:05:34] make things easy for us and in this war against terrorism, our army,
[00:05:38] our police, our paramilitary forces be successful,
[00:05:42] so that we can fight this war
[00:05:46] with unity and good intentions.
[00:05:50] Thank you very much, Mr.
[00:05:53] Naqvi. The things that the Interior Minister
[00:05:56] said today were all discussed by the Prime Minister
[00:06:00] with the President of the country
[00:06:03] before
[00:06:08] advising him on this matter. A very detailed cabinet meeting
[00:06:12] was held, you people were also reporting about it,
[00:06:16] which lasted for more than two
[00:06:19] hours, and in it, the relevant
[00:06:23] departments also gave reports,
[00:06:26] which the Governor from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
[00:06:30] informed the federal government about some very alarming things
[00:06:34] through a letter, because they are representatives of the federation
[00:06:36] and they fulfilled their responsibility, which is mentioned
[00:06:39] in Article 234, that
[00:06:45] government is being run
[00:06:49] in such a way
[00:06:52] in the province and the writ of government
[00:06:55] is also not visible and instead of correcting
[00:06:59] it, you are prioritizing
[00:07:02] your politics and putting
[00:07:06] the lives of people and the welfare of the province
[00:07:09] and what is good for Pakistan on the back burner.
[00:07:13] They fulfilled their constitutional responsibility. Along with this,
[00:07:17] a lot of material and reports that the Interior Minister has shared with
[00:07:21] you, among which one of the most alarming things
[00:07:24] was that in the last two to two and a half years,
[00:07:28] there has been a 196% increase
[00:07:31] in incidents of terrorism and extremism,
[00:07:35] that is, if one incident used to happen in two
[00:07:38] three days, it has now come to three incidents, and
[00:07:42] there has been almost a 200% increase,
[00:07:46] and the number of martyrdoms
[00:07:50] and injuries and the destruction
[00:07:53] of installations and vehicles
[00:07:56] also saw a similar sharp increase.
[00:07:59] One way to deal with this was for the provincial
[00:08:03] government to work with the federation and with the Pakistan
[00:08:06] Armed Forces to fight that war
[00:08:10] with full zeal.
[00:08:14] But you yourself saw in the trends that unfortunately,
[00:08:18] the majority of the attacks and the trend
[00:08:22] was more on the Pakistan Armed Forces, KP
[00:08:25] Police, and innocent civilians
[00:08:28] or religious leaders. And in this
[00:08:32] burning fire, instead of putting their heads together
[00:08:36] to find a solution, there was reluctance
[00:08:40] to move forward with resolve. He explained
[00:08:44] all that. So in such a situation,
[00:08:47] the federal government and the President
[00:08:50] of Pakistan, acting within the framework
[00:08:54] of the constitution, and these
[00:08:57] are the provisions that the original framers
[00:09:00] of the 1973 constitution, our elders
[00:09:04] in parliament, put their heads together
[00:09:07] and included these articles, because
[00:09:11] the Federation of Pakistan
[00:09:13] is a collection, a country,
[00:09:16] we are one nation. We are its units,
[00:09:20] but these units are also bound to live with the federation.
[00:09:24] And there are various provisions of the constitution
[00:09:27] in which this is expressed. For example, Article 149
[00:09:31] of the constitution, its Clause 4 says that
[00:09:34] the Federal Government, although we say that we do not interfere in many
[00:09:38] domains, in health, In 149(4)
[00:09:43] it was said that where there is talk of
[00:09:47] peace and tranquility in the country
[00:09:50] and talk of the country's protection and security, the Federal Government will give directions
[00:09:54] to the provinces. If they do not implement it, then there are also
[00:09:57] consequences. Article 232 of the Constitution, which talks
[00:10:03] says that if
[00:10:06] internal threats are such that the security of the province is at
[00:10:10] stake, and also
[00:10:13] you have a threat of external
[00:10:16] invasion, meaning an external attack, here there is a fire burning.
[00:10:20] The entire border area from our neighboring country,
[00:10:24] Afghanistan. What is happening from there is also no secret from you, and the internal
[00:10:28] matters are also no secret. So both
[00:10:31] these situations were created. I was asked
[00:10:34] 15-20 days ago that the federal
[00:10:38] government is thinking, so I said that a procedure has been given in the constitution.
[00:10:41] The day the federal government has that material
[00:10:45] and the federal government will be able
[00:10:49] to justify that now the President should exercise this power.
[00:10:52] On that day,
[00:10:55] a decision will be made within the constitutional framework,
[00:10:59] and you heard, you kept seeing,
[00:11:02] you kept covering that the talks were at what level,
[00:11:05] to what extent they went on till 2:30 AM
[00:11:08] last night, and then there was another
[00:11:12] attempt yesterday, despite that things were still
[00:11:16] stuck, so in this background,
[00:11:19] after detailed consultation today,
[00:11:21] the President of the country,
[00:11:25] on the advice of the Prime Minister,
[00:11:28] using the powers given in Article 232
[00:11:32] of the Constitution and Article 234 of the Constitution,
[00:11:35] has imposed emergency
[00:11:39] in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In common parlance,
[00:11:43] when matters of Article 232
[00:11:46] occur, we say it's an emergency, and when matters of 234
[00:11:50] occur, we say it's Governor's rule, but this situation was so grave
[00:11:53] and
[00:12:00] that both situations were
[00:12:04] such that both these provisions were exercised,
[00:12:07] and the powers given in it, in the first proclamation issued
[00:12:10] by the President, according
[00:12:16] the background has been told to you.
[00:12:20] It must have been notified by now. In it,
[00:12:23] so all those things.
[00:13:23] Keeping them in view, the proclamation
[00:13:26] covered all these things, and on its basis,
[00:13:30] under the mechanism of the constitution,
[00:13:34] the proclamation says that
[00:13:36] the federal government has,
[00:13:40] through this proclamation, inactivated
[00:13:43] the provincial government, it ceases
[00:13:47] to exist at this time,
[00:13:50] and the Governor has been authorized
[00:13:53] by the federation to use the powers of the provincial government
[00:13:57] that have been delegated to him,
[00:14:00] which the constitution allows, and for this,
[00:14:04] through a subsequent order, the Governor
[00:14:07] has been proposed
[00:14:10] an 11-member advisory council,
[00:14:13] in which Atta Tarar Sahib will tell
[00:14:16] you that every effort has been made
[00:14:20] to find the kind of people needed for betterment
[00:14:24] and improvement, who can work
[00:14:27] with hard work and dedication during
[00:14:31] this interim period, this transitional
[00:14:34] time. Under the second order,
[00:14:37] for the 12 districts that are almost
[00:14:41] in a state of war, the federal government
[00:14:44] has established a secretariat
[00:14:47] under the Governor and Chief Secretary
[00:14:50] that will directly oversee these 12 districts
[00:14:56] and keep the federal government informed because the situation
[00:14:59] there is very serious. In this,
[00:15:03] an ARDC has
[00:15:05] been established,
[00:15:08] a council that
[00:15:11] will handle all matters related to reconstruction
[00:15:15] and development. That's right, Atta,
[00:15:18] he will handle all those matters,
[00:15:22] and the names of the districts
[00:15:34] have been notified. Their administration
[00:15:38] will be managed through this mechanism
[00:15:41] by the provincial government and the central government.
[00:15:44] The Governor will also oversee this.
[00:15:48] In the proclamation, obviously,
[00:15:51] in accordance with the intent of the constitution,
[00:15:54] the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, provincial ministers,
[00:15:58] advisors, special assistants,
[00:16:01] Advocate General, and several other constitutional office holders
[00:16:04] have been immediately deactivated.
[00:16:08] Along with this, under
[00:16:12] Article 245,
[00:16:15] the federal government
[00:16:17] has
[00:16:20] issued a proclamation
[00:16:24] to deploy the Pakistan
[00:16:26] Armed Forces for assistance
[00:16:29] to the provincial government there,
[00:16:32] currently under the leadership of Governor Kundi Sahib,
[00:16:36] in accordance with the procedure given in the mechanism
[00:16:39] of the constitution under Article 245. And they were already deployed.
[00:16:43] Let me clarify. They are making all these sacrifices
[00:16:47] in the war against terror, so as a result of this deployment, our brave soldiers
[00:16:50] and officers are being martyred and they are doing their utmost
[00:16:54] to eradicate it.
[00:16:58] But to convert this into a more coordinated
[00:17:01] effort and to achieve results,
[00:17:04] a fresh proclamation has also been issued.
[00:17:08] Now the procedure for this is that
[00:17:11] time to
[00:17:15] time, the constitution authorizes
[00:17:19] and the proclamation
[00:17:22] authorizes the federal government
[00:17:26] to issue appropriate orders
[00:17:30] through the Governor from time to time
[00:17:33] so that the affairs of the province
[00:17:37] can be run constitutionally
[00:17:41] within the constitution and the
[00:17:45] results or objectives
[00:17:48] that we want to achieve with this proclamation
[00:17:51] can be ensured. For its details,
[00:17:54] I will request the Information Minister to introduce
[00:17:58] you to the kind of setup
[00:18:02] matters are. The ratification
[00:18:06] of these proclamations will be done
[00:18:09] separately by the National Assembly and the Senate of
[00:18:12] Pakistan up to the limit of Article 232,
[00:18:15] and that has to be done in ten days. For that,
[00:18:18] a session of Parliament is also proposed
[00:18:22] in a day or two, and then this matter will also be taken
[00:18:26] to a joint sitting. Along with that, since it is a requirement
[00:18:30] of Article 234
[00:18:33] to debate that matter and approve
[00:18:36] it, the joint
[00:18:39] sitting, the joint session of Parliament,
[00:18:42] so all these matters
[00:18:46] will be placed before Parliament
[00:18:50] under this constitutional procedure so that it can
[00:18:53] make its decision regarding their ratification.
[00:18:56] Thank
[00:18:59] and the Honorable Minister for Law shed light on
[00:19:04] of this. One is its law and order, safety, and security
[00:19:07] aspect, and the other is its legal aspect.
[00:19:11] Look, today, when this was also discussed in the cabinet
[00:19:15] under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister,
[00:19:18] it was the well-considered opinion of all cabinet
[00:19:22] members that the PTI
[00:19:25] government in KP
[00:19:28] is hand in glove with terrorists.
[00:19:30] They have an unholy alliance
[00:19:33] with terrorists, and terrorists
[00:19:37] have full access
[00:19:39] to how a particular district will be run.
[00:19:43] That is, the report presented by the Intelligence
[00:19:47] Bureau and law enforcement agencies
[00:19:50] showed that the situation there is so frightening,
[00:19:54] as Mohsin Naqvi Sahib also said, that
[00:19:58] all political parties have been attacked by terrorists there.
[00:20:04] sitting with you, will tell you more about this.
[00:20:50] martyred people, carried out terrorist attacks, from hospitals
[00:20:54] to mosques to police stations
[00:20:58] to army personnel, you empowered them.
[00:21:00] These are two different things. That is, constitutional breakdown
[00:21:04] happens when you empower
[00:21:07] those people and make them a stakeholder in your authority,
[00:21:11] that a power-sharing formula, if I may say so,
[00:21:15] was slowly developing between the terrorists and the PTI
[00:21:18] government in KP, which started from the southern
[00:21:22] districts and was gaining more ingress throughout
[00:21:25] Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. I was in the hospital
[00:21:28] in Kohat, and the civilians who came there,
[00:21:32] who were severely injured, said
[00:21:36] that "get rid of them, they will destroy us. We are
[00:21:39] injured, but we want to fight against terrorists." And
[00:21:43] they said that "we are very honorable people,
[00:21:46] very proud people, and we don't give up our revenge."
[00:21:50] I don't know why these terrorists have been given a free hand
[00:21:53] throughout the province. So you see that those who were responsible
[00:21:57] for law and order, safety, and security, they not only
[00:22:01] facilitated them, they made terrorists
[00:22:04] respectable members of their administration. I went to the house
[00:22:08] of that constable. It requires a lot of courage for this work.
[00:22:11] Faheemullah, a resident of Kohat,
[00:22:15] was the only son of his father. And
[00:22:18] the mountain
[00:22:39] and their nexus, as a result of which they had outsourced many districts
[00:22:43] to terrorists, saying, "You martyr citizens, you destroy mosques,
[00:22:47] you bomb hospitals, whoever doesn't pay you protection money."
[00:22:51] Basically, who are these people? Who are these Taliban? I, by the grace of Almighty Allah,
[00:22:55] say this with full conviction that
[00:22:58] these are people
[00:23:01] funded by external powers who want to bring our country
[00:23:05] to the brink of destruction. Now, any such
[00:23:08] group that receives funding from abroad
[00:23:11] and comes and martyrs our people and harms
[00:23:15] the lives and property of our people,
[00:23:18] and
[00:24:30] how do they bring prosperity to the people of the province? I will now show you the structure
[00:24:34] that today, when this group
[00:24:37] has been liberated, who are the competent
[00:24:40] people who are now part of this council?
[00:24:43] Please come forward. Come forward.
[00:24:47] I will show you one by one that the home
[00:24:50] portfolio in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regarding the Advisory
[00:24:54] Council, and this Advisory Council will operate under the Governor. Its home council member is Kifayatullah Khan Sahib.
[00:24:58] He is an ex-IG Prisons. He is an ex-chairman FATA Tribunal
[00:25:01] and he has also been in the Tribal Affairs Department and Home
[00:25:05] Department, and along with that, he has also been Commissioner
[00:25:10] competent officer, a very honest officer, who has been given the home
[00:25:14] portfolio in this council. In finance,
[00:25:18] Tariq
[00:25:20] Mahmood is a very prominent name in Pakistan.
[00:25:24] He has rendered his services throughout Pakistan. And he has also been an ex-chairman.
[00:25:28] He has also served
[00:25:30] in Punjab. He has been Secretary
[00:25:34] Finance and Secretary of
[00:25:37] Devolution. He has a very excellent and unblemished career.
[00:25:40] Income tax group
[00:25:41] and he has.
[00:25:47] So that they can steer it towards success, bring reforms,
[00:26:02] and make people's lives easier. So you will see
[00:26:06] in these technocrats that they are the shining stars
[00:26:09] of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, whose past
[00:26:13] also bears witness that they have always served Pakistan
[00:26:16] and always made a positive contribution.
[00:26:20] And even now, the selection has been made purely on merit.
[00:26:23] Come forward, Mr. Amir Javed
[00:26:27] is in law. He has also been Advocate General. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court
[00:26:30] and ex-E.
[00:28:33] Having a career with a doctorate where you have brought improvement,
[00:28:37] where you have served, you have made improvements there. In the institution
[00:28:40] you were in, you have improved its competence, its
[00:28:44] service delivery for the public, for the people of Pakistan.
[00:28:48] So the careers of all these people are like this. Next,
[00:28:51] for communication, Asif Rafiq Afridi Sahib
[00:28:54] has been appointed to this Advisory Council
[00:28:58] for Communication, Local Government, and Housing and Transport. This is also
[00:29:32] not an easy task to
[00:29:35] issue a fatwa against terrorists while sitting in a religious
[00:29:39] seminary, but also to make a positive contribution to the narrative
[00:29:43] against terrorism every day. So I think
[00:29:46] it is a very good name and he has great services
[00:29:50] not only for Islam but also for countering terrorism.
[00:29:54] Next, in energy, Usman Saifullah Khan
[00:29:57] is there. He has been on the Board of Members of GIK Institute, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute.
[00:30:00] He is also an ex-Senator. He has also been a member of PSO's
[00:30:04] Board of Management. And he has also been ex-chairman
[00:30:08] of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association. He will be
[00:30:12] an advisor for power
[00:30:14] and energy and development. And once
[00:30:17] again, he is a well-known
[00:30:21] name and needs no introduction. And in terms of professional competence
[00:30:24] and positive contribution, his track record is also very good
[00:30:28] and very clear. Information and Broadcasting, she is sitting with me.