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[00:00:00] rather it is threatening the entire
[00:00:02] me world or it well taken that
[00:00:05] multifactorial strategy is required to counter
[00:00:09] terrorism in
[00:00:11] of Pakistan, especially in Balochistan and in KP. Moving forward towards
[00:00:15] you Khalid, according to the report of Pakistan institute of conflict
[00:00:18] studies, it reports that attacks in Balochistan
[00:00:22] increased from 83 in July to 89 in August. What
[00:00:26] do you think that what factors are driving these attacks? to
[00:00:30] be increasing day by day and we have seen in the last month these attacks
[00:00:34] were increased from 83 to
[00:00:36] 89. Anu, I believe
[00:00:40] of that this is a time
[00:00:41] a period, especially in last three four months, Pakistan has contributed
[00:00:44] hugely in bringing the peace to the region, especially
[00:00:47] in a war between America and Iran, so we
[00:00:51] found new respect in the committee of nation, we
[00:00:54] of we are elevated from the influence point of view, because this influence does
[00:00:58] not come very easily ' let me share with your viewers and you will
[00:01:02] all agree that you can buy the weapons, you can buy the
[00:01:05] equipment, you can buy hardware, you can buy any product from the
[00:01:09] world, what you cannot buy is the image and the perception that you
[00:01:13] have in the minds and hearts
[00:01:15] of the people, so we have earned a new influence in the minds
[00:01:19] of the people, the world rates us that we are
[00:01:21] of a peace loving country, not only that we proved this year, but last
[00:01:25] year june, may june 25 what happened
[00:01:28] was the world saw and realize that in that month when we retaliated
[00:01:32] against India and obviously proved that we have the
[00:01:36] capability to not to become obviously victim of any
[00:01:39] aggression, so the world has realized that we are a peaceling country,
[00:01:43] however we will take any challenge if thrusted upon us, and
[00:01:47] then within this one year we have contributed hugely, so as we
[00:01:51] become more relevant in the eyes
[00:01:52] of the world nations, this has not gone well with our
[00:01:56] enemies obviously, that is why they want to instigate something, and
[00:02:00] sp specially and particularly where they do
[00:02:04] not have to face the embarrassment like they faced in May
[00:02:06] 2025, here they have to just fund some terrorists, they
[00:02:10] have to sponsor, they give them some leverages and benefits and incentives, so
[00:02:14] they carry out the attacks, so they do not are get any midline,
[00:02:18] obviously comments from President Trump every time President Trump was
[00:02:22] reminding them
[00:02:23] of of the shooting down
[00:02:24] of the aeroplane, so I think they founded
[00:02:26] a refuge on this, and that is probably increase.
[00:02:31] the frequency
[00:02:31] of these, because our enemies are telling the world
[00:02:35] that here is a country which is victim of obviously or involved
[00:02:39] in terrorism, so obviously not safe for tourism, not safe for
[00:02:43] investment, not safe for bilateral trades and everything, so I think they want
[00:02:47] to mel want to create an degree of uneasiness
[00:02:51] amongst the friendly countries that they should shy away from
[00:02:54] coming and committing for Pakistan's trade or having huge
[00:02:57] infrastructure or bilateral trade. I think that that has been the major reason
[00:03:01] according to me. All right, that's that's a very important point. Moving forward towards you,
[00:03:05] Zahir Shah Sheraz, you have mentioned about a comprehensive approach, a
[00:03:09] comprehensive approach that includes the governance, that includes the intelligence
[00:03:13] sharing, but we have discussed about the
[00:03:15] inter
[00:03:17] you know department, inter country intelligence sharing,
[00:03:21] when it comes to the intra intelligence sharing, what do you think
[00:03:25] that when it comes to the federal intelligence agencies
[00:03:28] of the provincial agencies, how can the... federal intelligence agencies
[00:03:31] or the provincial police or the counter terrorism departments of respective
[00:03:35] provinces improve the information sharing so that threats can be
[00:03:39] identified before the militants could reach
[00:03:42] to sensitive you know installations or the sensitive points
[00:03:46] or the gatherings
[00:03:47] of the offices or the you know offices of armed
[00:03:51] personnels such as police lines or or FC
[00:03:55] headquarters or the other important
[00:03:56] areas. we have have very
[00:04:00] organized document and that is in the form of national action plan, so we
[00:04:04] have to realize that one part, yes the kinetic operation is going
[00:04:08] on, the law enforcement agencies are trying having
[00:04:12] intelligence based operation, they are having full fledge operations in especially in the
[00:04:15] peripheries and on the outskirts
[00:04:18] of the the major you know urban towns, but
[00:04:22] again coming again toward the issue of governance that kinetic
[00:04:26] operation has gained the most
[00:04:29] of the land from the terrorist. they have been whipped out, they have been expelled from those
[00:04:32] areas, but now what about the governance issues? i think we are lacking
[00:04:36] that even in Balochistan, even in the khibar and the tribal areas,
[00:04:40] the governance issues are very serious, we cannot
[00:04:43] of expand and extend those administrative measures
[00:04:45] in the form of strengthening the CTD, in the form of strengthening the
[00:04:49] intelligence network, especially in the bordering town, so that is the reason these militants
[00:04:53] are now penetrating, so what we have to do is we have to go full
[00:04:56] of fledge, implementation
[00:04:57] of the revised national action plan is the main thing. "all those people,
[00:05:01] locals, all those political parties, groups
[00:05:04] and the supporters which are in the one way or the other,
[00:05:08] sympathizing, patronizing or supporting these terrist, they have to be taken to the
[00:05:11] tosk." so this is very important as far as you
[00:05:15] know
[00:05:16] the the intelligence sharing between pakist pakistani national
[00:05:20] security forces and intelligence agencies are concern, i think they are on one
[00:05:24] page, we have apex committee meeting where all these things are discussed, we have
[00:05:27] national peace committee meetings which are which is attended by all the
[00:05:31] chief executives and prime minister as well as the intelligence
[00:05:35] and other chiefs, so it means there is a coordination
[00:05:39] going on, but why we are lagging?
[00:05:42] "you a complete and full fledge control over such like incident, the reason
[00:05:46] is this radicalized area which was intentionally
[00:05:50] radicalized during the Afghan war, we haven't done much for the
[00:05:54] de-radicalization of this this region, we had been waiting for the international
[00:05:57] community of this region, we have seen that and we have been witnessing
[00:06:01] Pakistan is trying to best to counter this terrorism that is
[00:06:05] originating from the border and intelligence based operations have been carried out to
[00:06:09] discuss about that, we were joined by Zahir Shah Sherazi sah was in Afghan affairs" expert thank
[00:06:13] you so much for joining in views at seven and sharing your views with
[00:06:16] us. moving forward towards you chithi sab, considering the fact that we have
[00:06:20] mentioned that Pakistan is asking them to come to talking table again and
[00:06:23] again. pakistan has continued its
[00:06:27] diplomatic and humanitarian engagement with Afghanistan despite its security
[00:06:30] concerns. how can Islam about maintain that engagement while demanding
[00:06:34] meaurable, verifiable counter terrorism
[00:06:38] strategy by Afghan Taliban
[00:06:40] regime. Manu, I think a
[00:06:44] direct interaction and the goodwill gestures about the trade and other
[00:06:48] support did not work in the past, especially in the recent past, they've not
[00:06:52] worked, so I think we need to use the international influence to
[00:06:56] sort out the issue, the fact remains that America negotiated with
[00:06:59] Talibans almost for 10 years in Doha, and when this Doha
[00:07:03] agreement was signed, these Talibans assured
[00:07:07] Americans that this will be new Afghanistan, so
[00:07:11] does the world agree that? It's it's a new Afghanistan, no, the
[00:07:15] brutalities are the same, the terror is being exported, obviously, the it's being
[00:07:18] weaponized, the it's terror is available on
[00:07:22] rent, so this is not a new Afghanistan and Americans
[00:07:25] and other countries who are obviously friendly towards, they still have lot of
[00:07:29] influence on these Taliban, so I think it should be true wrong engagement, one
[00:07:33] is that you do engage them bilaterally and obviously try to create a
[00:07:37] goodwill gesture and obviously try to make them realize the past relations that
[00:07:41] we have had with the... Istan for last at least four or five
[00:07:44] decades since the Soviet Union took over and whatever we contributed
[00:07:48] to obviously get them liberated so they need to be refresh that and top of
[00:07:52] that as I said the super powers where we have now
[00:07:56] much better influence as compared to what we had about 15 16 months
[00:08:00] back so I think we need to make them realize that we have been targeted and
[00:08:03] we are facing the innocent brutalities and casualities because of
[00:08:07] this terror attack and those countries which have lot of
[00:08:10] incentives or to off. "I think they can play a very
[00:08:14] critical role because obviously, as I said, they cannot survive and
[00:08:18] sustain their life, stand alone, obviously the world has to or should come
[00:08:22] forward now, and Pakistan should continue press on the diplomatic
[00:08:25] effort more aggressively, because the world has started to listen to us and started to
[00:08:29] realize our contribution, so I think that mileage or
[00:08:33] dividend must be passed to the common people of KPK and Baluchistan who are
[00:08:37] suffering the most. All right, so Pakistan said that it would
[00:08:41] respond to the terrorist. you know emerging from
[00:08:45] Afghanistan in self defense and in accordance with international law, what diplomatic
[00:08:48] mechanism can be pursued alongside the security masers
[00:08:52] to address these threats as well, how can pakistan
[00:08:55] respond in accordance to the international law in this
[00:08:59] condition? you see maror, international law or
[00:09:03] united nations regulations and law permits us that we are
[00:09:07] entitlement for defense of our homeland if there is an aggression from
[00:09:11] outside, so there is no confusion their regression has been sponsored and
[00:09:14] triggered from outside and from Afghanistan obviously, so we are
[00:09:18] legitimate from and from the
[00:09:22] victim point of view, we can obviously and we should hit back. Let
[00:09:26] me also assure and I've said it many times in your program that we, the armed
[00:09:29] forces, especially Pakistan arm forces and law enforcement agencies
[00:09:33] have been very very cautious, we have not gone for dager response,
[00:09:37] we've not put the trigger just on unload and unload just on
[00:09:41] the hype of it. "we've been very responsible, although we have
[00:09:45] huge capability, alhamdulillah to take on many more targets, well deep
[00:09:49] into Afghanistan and with much more intensity and atrocity, but we've held
[00:09:52] back because we want to play mature, number one, number two, we don't
[00:09:56] want atrocities or brutalities and obviously been inflicted on the
[00:10:00] civilians populations and number three, historical record says that
[00:10:04] we've enjoyed great relations with Afghanistan, so we don't want obviously those
[00:10:07] old four five decades of relationship to be spoiled like just like this, so
[00:10:11] I would suggest..." that the limited offense, a prohibitive cost
[00:10:15] is to be should be continued to be imposed, number one, and top
[00:10:19] of that, you said the diplomatic ties, not only at bilateral level, but
[00:10:23] international level and especially in... involving China, Russia, Saudi
[00:10:27] Arab, UAE, Qatar and those countries who have the
[00:10:30] element of influence hugely present on Taliban, they should be
[00:10:34] engaged and obviously made aware the kind of suffering the Pakistan has gone
[00:10:38] through, especially even after being a great contributor
[00:10:42] to the peace in the region in the form of Iran and American war.
[00:10:46] Well taken, you have raised such valid concerns, thank you so much for joining in
[00:10:50] views at seven and sharing your insight with us regarding the intelligence based
[00:10:54] operations and use
[00:10:55] of Afghan soil against Pakistan we were air commador retired Mr. Khalid Chishti is
[00:10:59] defense and security analyst, a former fighter pilot and the senior officer
[00:11:03] of Pakistan Air Force. So now moving forward towards another issue that is not regional
[00:11:06] issue, that is not an issue of Pakistan, rather it is a
[00:11:10] global issue and world collectively and separately trying
[00:11:13] to navigate different aspects to counter this issue that is
[00:11:17] the climate change issue that is is the issue related to climate change,
[00:11:21] climate governance, the countries across the global are setting up their... standards and
[00:11:25] other countries in the developing world are trying to meet those standards and
[00:11:29] now Pakistan has improved its position in the
[00:11:33] 2026 environmental performance index moving from you
[00:11:37] know it moved 22 places up from
[00:11:40] 179th in 2024 to 157th among
[00:11:44] 177 countries the world. Pakistan's overall EPI
[00:11:48] score stands at 29 compared with
[00:11:52] you know India that is 22. the index produced
[00:11:56] by the university says that countries across 47
[00:12:00] indicators and the 12 environmental categories and at
[00:12:04] the same time we talk about this report, the environmental performance
[00:12:07] index, the report highlights serious challenges for
[00:12:11] Pakistan as well, particularly in air quality and the environmental
[00:12:15] health and Pakistan ranks 176th in air
[00:12:18] quality while its overall environmental health ranking is
[00:12:22] 175th, however however the picture right now is not
[00:12:26] uniformly negative for Pakistan as Pakistan ranks 14th
[00:12:29] globally on the EPI's forests indicator and
[00:12:33] 29th on the nitrogen dioxide expo year as
[00:12:37] well so to discuss about that to have another or
[00:12:41] decoding this you know technical or critical term when it comes
[00:12:44] to the this index or the ranking of Pakistan and the improvement
[00:12:48] of 22 scales up we are joined by Miss
[00:12:52] Mariam Shabir Abbasi she is a environmental expert. has joined us from
[00:12:56] USA. Miss Mariam, welcome to program views at seven as Pakistan has
[00:12:59] climbed 22 places in the EPI, what
[00:13:03] specific policies or the interventions contributed to its
[00:13:07] improvement and how much of this progress can be considered
[00:13:11] sustainable in the given time frame or the given
[00:13:14] situation where we have seen the terrorist attacks, we have
[00:13:18] seen the situation
[00:13:19] in the middle east that is always always
[00:13:22] you know analyzed in a way of diplomatic issue that is always analyzed
[00:13:25] in a way of military confrontation, but not an
[00:13:29] environmental issue, so how sustainable
[00:13:33] is this, the progress made by Pakistan? well, if
[00:13:37] you look at environmental performance index
[00:13:40] report, you would see that Pakistan has
[00:13:43] you know made progress in two major broad categories, I would
[00:13:47] say, the first one is of course environmental health and the second one
[00:13:51] is the ecosystem vitality, the and under like their...
[00:13:55] three broad categories, third is climate change where Pakistan hasn't
[00:13:58] performed lot and I would come to that why that has not
[00:14:02] happened, but where Pakistan has made progress in two broad
[00:14:06] categories when I was mentioning about environmental health is that you know when it comes to
[00:14:10] drinking water or sanitation services
[00:14:13] or I would say even particular matter
[00:14:16] 2.5 nitrogen oxide, I
[00:14:20] don't think so I will make too technical by using these terms for the viewers,
[00:14:24] but you... lots of categories for example ecosystem vitality
[00:14:28] as well where Pakistan has done better when it comes to
[00:14:31] a-forestation and I would like to mention that when we are talking about
[00:14:35] air forestation is not the urban planning
[00:14:38] thing in that because it's it's the overall forest cover we are talking
[00:14:42] about because the in urban planning the the
[00:14:46] forest cover removal is a big big issue still for Pakistan but there
[00:14:50] were overall some data constraints for this report
[00:14:54] as well. they relied on AI models as
[00:14:57] well, they the teams relied on of course the government data as
[00:15:01] well and also GIS data as well, so there were
[00:15:05] some data challenges as well, but when we look at such
[00:15:09] reports Mahnur, we need to be very very cautious,
[00:15:12] because they are like comparing global north and global south and
[00:15:16] that's in my opinion is not fair
[00:15:20] because the global north is contributing lot to their missions
[00:15:24] and they... import, they export, sorry, their
[00:15:28] emissions by putting some markets or some waste
[00:15:31] dumping in Asian countries, including Pakistan as well, so
[00:15:35] it's there are lots of lots of factors and the one factor which you
[00:15:39] mentioned before asking a question was also the regional situation
[00:15:42] where you know the war is contributing lot to the
[00:15:46] global emissions and also for Pakistan as well when it comes to air quality
[00:15:50] particularly where we haven't performed better is just not the domestic
[00:15:54] factors but also regional factors as well look at the Yemen you
[00:15:58] know it's been decades that the hutis are like
[00:16:01] involved in many and there are lots of other
[00:16:05] other actors too involved in Yeman. say, but also
[00:16:08] Afghanistan, with India, now with
[00:16:11] Saudis and
[00:16:13] ho these conditions, you these all contribute towards emissions and Pakistan
[00:16:17] strategically where it lies, it has like air quality, bad air
[00:16:21] quality and emissions problem and also graciting problem at the same time because of
[00:16:25] global emissions, so it's it's kind of complex and even
[00:16:29] despite having all these challenges Pakistan has outperformed in
[00:16:32] 22 broad categories which is very very impressive you
[00:16:36] despite having political leadership
[00:16:40] problems because of 18th amendment and of course the financial
[00:16:43] issues as well because of climate adaptation
[00:16:47] fund, climate green fund or loss and damage fund,
[00:16:50] you know there is not much money for Pakistan to perform better, but even
[00:16:54] then for example I would say particularly
[00:16:58] with air quality some some segments perform
[00:17:01] better, not particular 2.5 but the
[00:17:04] other pollutants, I would say. "and that's
[00:17:08] because particularly in Punjab the current
[00:17:11] administration and current government has taken a lot of positive steps, I
[00:17:15] would say, it's not perfect at this stage, but it's a lot, they have done a
[00:17:19] lot better than previous governments, I would say, and we have seen the
[00:17:23] reduction of smog in in just few months and months and it
[00:17:26] is very important at the provincial level or at the district level or
[00:17:30] at the national level
[00:17:31] as well to make such strategies that are environmental friendly
[00:17:35] that are environmental sustainable as well to..." discuss about that, we are joined
[00:17:39] by Dr. Bakht Bilal Khan, he is head of climate action weather wale,
[00:17:42] Dr. Bacht, welcome to program views at7, considering the current situation which we are
[00:17:46] celebrating that Pakistan is actually moving 22 scale up,
[00:17:50] Pakistan's overall score is 29, while
[00:17:53] India's is 22. What does this comparison tell us about
[00:17:57] the environmental policies being implemented on both the sides the
[00:18:01] border and how the policy of one country is one way or the other is
[00:18:05] impacting the other country, because when it comes to to climate challenges and when it
[00:18:08] comes to climate action,
[00:18:10] it is borderless,
[00:18:11] it is, it goes beyond borders, so how do you look at
[00:18:14] it? thank you very much, so when it comes
[00:18:18] to the environment, it's not more of issue or political
[00:18:21] victory, but we have to focus on an internal issues, so the environment,
[00:18:25] if you look at the broader climate, greenhouse gas
[00:18:29] emissions,
[00:18:29] you know they have a strong effect and there's
[00:18:32] a lot of
[00:18:33] you know cross boundary issues that come up, but when it comes to the environmental...
[00:18:37] the related issues such as air quality and PM
[00:18:40] 2.5 this
[00:18:42] is the strong factor which is the internal you know operations that
[00:18:46] country we when have it in comes to the industry
[00:18:48] when it comes to
[00:18:49] you know the the way we use and burn the
[00:18:53] crop residue and other than that what sort of cooking
[00:18:57] methods we use and what sort of vehicle transport we have in place
[00:19:00] so if you look at the index uh we should
[00:19:04] not focus much on the ranking but also on the score as well. while the
[00:19:08] overall rank is quite good, but we should not stop here, we
[00:19:11] should, if you look at what Pakistan is doing currently, Pakistan
[00:19:14] is taking tremendous steps ever since the past two decades,
[00:19:18] initially with the EPA acts and then towards the national
[00:19:22] creen policy that came up about the four years ago, what Pakistan
[00:19:26] doing, what Pakistan is doing is now, Pakistan has
[00:19:30] international development assistant loan in the Punjab Clean year program,
[00:19:34] which is about 300 million dollars clubbed with the government funds.
[00:19:37] so the overall approach here is to first assess the baseline
[00:19:41] assessment where we are currently, we have some
[00:19:45] reports such as this index which has given us certain figures, but we we need
[00:19:48] to do an internal assessment of our own and assess the baseline
[00:19:52] assessment where we are currently and then make a five to 10 year
[00:19:56] journey ahead because
[00:19:57] you know as the world bank also says we have to reduce this
[00:20:00] particular by about 35% in the next decade so
[00:20:04] we should not just focus on just one index and where we're currently
[00:20:08] but also on what lies ahead because environment is a great concern still for us
[00:20:11] and the ranking you know it's
[00:20:14] improved doctor pakistan ranks 14th globally on
[00:20:18] EPI's forest index how significant is this performance particularly
[00:20:22] in context with the forest restoration and plantation
[00:20:26] initiatives by the government or by the provinces across the
[00:20:29] country so the the plantation initiatives are
[00:20:33] quite good if you look at it
[00:20:34] you know they are there initiatives in place such as the 10 billion
[00:20:38] tsunami and there other forestation play you programs in place
[00:20:42] and you have the mangrove restoration that happens the overall you know plantation
[00:20:46] drive is quite good but you also need to look at the broader ecosystem if you look at the
[00:20:50] biodiversity ranking in the index, it's not as good as what the
[00:20:53] forestration index shows, so
[00:20:55] you need to also focus on holistic approach and then also you protect these
[00:20:59] forests and have a strong MRV in place and look at
[00:21:03] five 10 year approach where you you know you protect these forests
[00:21:07] and you have awareness campaigns in place and then you have satellite use
[00:21:11] technology and you monitor them
[00:21:13] and you constantly protect them not just focus on when you are planting them but where they are
[00:21:16] after the next five or 10 years all right? or it well
[00:21:20] taken to discuss another aspect when it comes to the quality,
[00:21:24] air quality index. moving forward towards you, miriam, the
[00:21:28] report places pakistan's near the bottom the air quality index, how much this
[00:21:32] problem is linked to the factors beyond Pakistan's direct control such as the
[00:21:35] regional pollution, how should those factors should be reflected
[00:21:39] in the international assessments, because we have been as you have praised
[00:21:43] the policies the Punjab government, we have been witnessing
[00:21:47] that the governments are continuously raising their... is that
[00:21:50] it is not only the government's you know control, it is
[00:21:54] beyond border, we are being affected by our neighboring countries, so what
[00:21:58] needs to be done when any international institution is
[00:22:01] assessing the climate or the call air quality index and the factors
[00:22:05] involved in it, does the cross border factor is
[00:22:08] included or not? well, if you
[00:22:12] look at the emissions due to conflict and wars,
[00:22:16] these are massively under reporting, even in international
[00:22:20] negotiations as well for example at conference of Paris as well so the
[00:22:23] question is that how these regional emissions
[00:22:27] because you know the pollutant doesn't know geographical borders, they
[00:22:31] travel with a wind direction anywhere they want of course
[00:22:35] based on their thickness and density, but of
[00:22:38] course it does have a massive massive huge impact and if you
[00:22:42] look at like for example last three decades of data you
[00:22:46] know the emissions when it comes to air quality.
[00:22:50] were also cross border you know from India because we share Punjab borders
[00:22:54] with them, but also what is happening in Afghanistan, the internal
[00:22:58] conflicts and external, I would say the wars, I'm referring
[00:23:02] towards war that that also involves lot of emissions and it's just not
[00:23:05] the during war,
[00:23:06] you know prewar and post war also have lots of lots
[00:23:10] of impact and emissions involved you know and
[00:23:14] now Yaman, I already mentioned that from decades the emissions are
[00:23:18] also it's it's not too much. far from Pakistan you know
[00:23:21] when it comes to emissions and all the other other factors and pollutants
[00:23:25] and that so it does contribute a lot to pollution
[00:23:29] but that doesn't undermine the fact that we need to
[00:23:33] also focus on how we are doing internally I would
[00:23:36] say within Pakistan boundaries and we have you know the air quality
[00:23:40] issue is very very massive in Pakistan and particularly particular matter
[00:23:43] 2.5 we are not being able even
[00:23:47] may make make lot of progress. within Pakistan as well
[00:23:51] and I see two kind of issues in in that, one is of
[00:23:55] course it was individual side as well government makes
[00:23:59] policies which are in place and that is sometimes
[00:24:02] challenging implement because of lack of human resources, lack
[00:24:06] of funding and lack of data sometimes as well,
[00:24:09] but on the other side the society needs to play its role, for
[00:24:13] example there is this rule in place that you know an individual
[00:24:17] who holds a car or riksha or... motorbike, they are
[00:24:21] supposed to get fitness certificate, but how many of us get fitness
[00:24:24] certificate? you know, and that that i'm referring
[00:24:28] towards the transportation sector, because that's the biggest biggest contributor when it
[00:24:32] comes to particular 2.5, but every time we see
[00:24:36] that the attention is more towards, i would say
[00:24:39] soft targets, for example farmers or brick ins, i'm not saying
[00:24:43] that those doesn't contribute towards pollution or particular matter 2.5 or
[00:24:47] air quality issue, but those those are not major
[00:24:51] contributor, those are seasonal contributors, i would say, so we need to
[00:24:55] expand our monitoring towards and which by the way, punjab
[00:24:58] government is putting its efforts in doing so, for example,
[00:25:02] they are targeting industries as well, they are targeting
[00:25:06] transportation sector as well, you know, there are a lot of reforms which
[00:25:10] needs to be made at domestic level as well to curtail this issue, but
[00:25:13] also the data gap issue, it's it's kind of
[00:25:17] bridging in punjab, i would say, but it's still a huge issue when it
[00:25:21] comes to other provinces, for example Balochistan, KP, two
[00:25:25] administrative units and other provinces Singh as
[00:25:29] well, you know, because after 18th amendment federal government doesn't have
[00:25:32] lot of say when it comes to environmental actions or environmental
[00:25:36] monitoring, so provincial governments need to step up from other
[00:25:40] provinces which I mentioned administrative units to really do
[00:25:44] something about air quality, but air quality is also very
[00:25:47] complicated because it's related to your
[00:25:51] natural,
[00:25:52] you know forest cover as well, so private housing society also
[00:25:56] contributes to that, the construction industry also contributes to air quality issue,
[00:25:59] the waste burning openly is another major and massive issue which
[00:26:03] does contribute to air quality problem in Pakistan as well, so it's a
[00:26:07] complex issue, I would say where where Pakistan needs a
[00:26:11] lot of interventions, not just at home
[00:26:15] but also cross water collaboration and climate diplomacy in
[00:26:19] general internationally, yes Mariam, well taken, thank you so much Mariam
[00:26:22] for joining in and sharing your views with us, we were discussing about the climate change
[00:26:26] and the scale up of Pakistan, 22 scales up of Pakistan in
[00:26:30] environmental performance index, Pakistan is performing, we have been
[00:26:34] discussing about the issues, the challenges which are faced by Pakistan and
[00:26:37] opportunities uh in this regard where the government is
[00:26:41] making sustainable policies, environmental sustainable policies
[00:26:45] and that is it, we were joined by Miss Mariam Shabir Abaasi, she is environmental
[00:26:49] expert, she has joined us from USA and then we were having Dr. Bakht Bilal
[00:26:53] Khan, he is head of climate action weather wale, thank you so much Dr. Bakh for joining
[00:26:57] in, thank you so much miss Mariam for joining in
[00:27:02] about cross border terrorism faced by Pakistan, we have discussed about the
[00:27:05] cross border environmental issues that are being uh faced
[00:27:09] by Pakistan since long, we have discussed about the gaps and the
[00:27:13] roads ahead for
[00:27:18] Pakistan
[00:27:18] TV.
[00:28:38] Pakistan TV team is here at the Beijing capital international
[00:28:41] airport
[00:28:48] where the new generation decides the next chapter of
[00:28:50] Bangladesh.
[00:29:03] second thought about the fact that the man of
[00:29:06] peace
[00:29:11] you about about the pakistani
[00:29:15] thank
[00:29:15] you.
[00:30:33] the deputy prime minister and the foreign minister apart from Islamabad to
[00:30:37] New York where he will accompany the prime minister Shabas Sharif from the 21st to the
[00:30:41] 25th of September for the high level week of
[00:30:44] 81st session the United Nations General
[00:30:47] Assembly.
[00:30:53] Iran sets conditions for reviving negotiations with the United States
[00:30:57] including an end to the war, the release the frozen.