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[00:00:00] um, unlike
[00:00:01] of in his first term uh, where uh he seemed to retain
[00:00:05] uh a fairly
[00:00:07] of diverse um set of sources of information,
[00:00:11] um, he seems to be
[00:00:14] um, locked inside bubble where people largely
[00:00:18] tell him what he wants to I hear, don't uh,
[00:00:21] know um, how so much of a surprise the mid-term elections are
[00:00:25] going to
[00:00:26] be for the president, um, clearly when
[00:00:29] of he wakes up on the morning
[00:00:33] in of November 4th, um, if uh, the situation is as it seems to be at the moment, um, he's going to be
[00:00:36] dealing with very different political reality than the one that he's been
[00:00:40] living with for the past two
[00:00:43] of years. so what if the republicans lose control of
[00:00:46] congress? in terms of an electoral
[00:00:50] setback, do you think that it could push Trump
[00:00:53] back to the diplomatic table, or you think
[00:00:57] that
[00:00:57] you know it could escalate the confrontation? "there seem to be divided opinions
[00:01:01] on this, on which side do you, which side would you
[00:01:05] take? I think uh, in
[00:01:09] a the short term, I think President Trump's instinct will be to
[00:01:13] rely more on
[00:01:14] of his own authority, on executive power that does
[00:01:17] of not of require consultation and
[00:01:20] authorization from Congress, and that we could see in the short
[00:01:24] term a move toward
[00:01:27] escalation, in the long term." however, he's going to
[00:01:31] of be of dependent upon um the constraints and the
[00:01:34] the levels of funding that he gets from the congress
[00:01:38] and in terms
[00:01:40] of the impact of
[00:01:41] a republican loss in November,
[00:01:44] of it's going to depend to a large extent on the magnitude
[00:01:51] of of of the loss. i think most observers now assume that the
[00:01:53] of democrats will take control
[00:01:55] of the house of representatives, that's going to have major
[00:01:59] impact. in terms of funding and in terms of
[00:02:02] oversight, but uh, right now,
[00:02:05] the the betting is that it's more likely than not that the democrats will also
[00:02:09] take control
[00:02:10] of the senate uh, and that will put concrete constraints
[00:02:13] on uh President Trump's ability to
[00:02:17] staff his administration, um,
[00:02:20] to nominate federal
[00:02:22] judges, and I think um, if
[00:02:26] the magnitude
[00:02:29] of the electoral loss for the Republicans is significant
[00:02:32] enough uh when combined with the fact that we're entering the
[00:02:36] last two
[00:02:37] of years um
[00:02:37] of the second term of a presidential administration where President
[00:02:41] Trump is 80 years
[00:02:43] of old and not eligible to run for re-election um
[00:02:47] a we may see um his control of his own party
[00:02:51] start to slip and members
[00:02:53] of the Republican minorities in Congress uh start to uh
[00:02:57] diverge from his uh
[00:02:58] a policy agenda.
[00:03:02] um, is Washington pursuing a
[00:03:05] coherent end game with Iran in your opinion?
[00:03:09] of um, you know, of course it seems like Iran is maintaining its
[00:03:13] posture, so so the simple, the simple
[00:03:17] answer is no, uh, Washington was not pursuing a coherent
[00:03:20] start game, and it is not
[00:03:22] of pursuing a coherent end game. I think uh, President Trump would like
[00:03:26] to find an exit strategy, I think
[00:03:29] in that was the... message that he was sending with the Islamabad memorandum
[00:03:33] of understanding, but it's
[00:03:36] become
[00:03:38] in increasingly unclear what the substantive elements of
[00:03:41] that strategy would be, there may be some
[00:03:45] additional flexibility
[00:03:49] in accepting unpopular terms after the
[00:03:53] mid-terms, when there is not an immediate electoral
[00:03:55] of consequence, um, but as of now
[00:03:59] um they've uh they've tried a military solution that's
[00:04:02] failed um
[00:04:04] a they've uh tried um I would say half-heartedly
[00:04:08] a diplomatic route that's also failed um
[00:04:11] and uh
[00:04:13] in right now the the primary focus seems to be on economic
[00:04:16] pressure
[00:04:17] a uh of which has the potential uh
[00:04:19] of to have an impact but will only work over the
[00:04:22] long-term US and
[00:04:25] Iran you think
[00:04:27] that there's a chance that that could also... change
[00:04:30] after the midterms, you think that
[00:04:34] you know there would be
[00:04:35] a reaction to whatever happens in the polls, you think that
[00:04:39] you know if if the the there is the results are what we expect
[00:04:43] there's going to be
[00:04:44] of some kind of reaction as far as
[00:04:46] a relationship between the current administration and netan
[00:04:49] yahu? oh you mean US and
[00:04:52] Israel? um, yes, i
[00:04:56] think there there will be um, well...
[00:05:00] there may potentially be a change of administration in Israel as
[00:05:03] well, so I think before we get to the US
[00:05:06] mid-terms, we have to see what the results
[00:05:09] of the Israeli elections are, and what the
[00:05:13] approach the new um Israeli government, if there
[00:05:17] is one uh will be. um, one the problems that
[00:05:21] we've been facing in this pre-electoral period
[00:05:25] is that the pre-electoral periods in Israel and the United
[00:05:28] States have overlapped and the interests of President
[00:05:32] Trump and President Netanyahu have diverged.
[00:05:36] President Trump uh has had an interest in deescalating and getting this
[00:05:40] conflict out the headlines. easing pressure on uh world
[00:05:44] energy markets in attempt to uh bring down
[00:05:48] energy costs and inflation for American
[00:05:51] voters uh whereas prime minister Netanyahu has had uh an
[00:05:55] interest in escalating and highlighting um the direct
[00:05:59] threat uh to Israel an attempt to uh rally
[00:06:02] support for his own coalition um after the
[00:06:05] election uh those pressures will ease uh
[00:06:09] so um there there will be an opportunity. uh
[00:06:13] for uh the two sides to try to uh
[00:06:16] harmonize their approaches again. the problem is
[00:06:20] that um prime minister Netanyahu for number of
[00:06:23] reasons uh has done tremendous damage to the image
[00:06:27] of Israel in the United States and I think we've seen that um
[00:06:31] play out in uh the mid-term election campaign
[00:06:35] and the the incoming Congress I think is going to be much more skeptical
[00:06:38] particularly if uh Mr. Netanyahu prevails and remains prime minister.
[00:06:43] is going to be much more skeptical of that relationship.
[00:06:47] Right, fair enough, please stay with us. I'm going to also introduce Dr. Jared
[00:06:50] owell who's former US diplomat, now joining us. Dr.
[00:06:54] Jared, when we look at the Trump administration and of
[00:06:58] course, it's permanent suspension of labor certification
[00:07:02] applications for Microsoft, several major IT
[00:07:06] firms. While launching investigations into
[00:07:09] nine universities, what is this? tell us about the
[00:07:13] administration's broader immigration strategy and
[00:07:17] you know how far could this crackdown really go in your
[00:07:21] opinion? well, I think we have to look at the the crackdown as what
[00:07:25] we're seeing in terms of larger US foreign policy in general, I would say
[00:07:29] this crackdown relates economic nationalism, whher the the
[00:07:32] president Trump is trying to move forward, what what he sees this is uh America
[00:07:36] first agenda, which is
[00:07:38] we are prioritizing uh Americans first uh that that
[00:07:43] largely said, um, there still hasn't been necessarily a correlation
[00:07:47] to show that that these number of Microsoft workers are taking American
[00:07:51] jobs, this is something the administration hasn't yet proven, um, but
[00:07:55] but more or less I think one the larger implications could be is
[00:07:58] that employers and as well as those seeking
[00:08:02] employment
[00:08:03] in the United States would be dissuaded from attracting any kind of
[00:08:06] international talent to the United States, which which has been
[00:08:10] a um '
[00:08:13] huge um advantage to the United States
[00:08:16] for for many, many decades now, so I think that's a major risk
[00:08:19] to to what's happening about the part the Trump
[00:08:22] administration. Vice president
[00:08:26] JD Vans has also accused Microsoft of
[00:08:29] benefiting from thousands of H1
[00:08:32] visas, green cards, while of course laying off
[00:08:36] American workers, how credible is the administration's
[00:08:39] argument that skilled workforce immigration? programs are being
[00:08:43] used at the expense of US
[00:08:46] employees, isn't it an age-old argument for
[00:08:50] a sense? it is an ageold argument, and again as
[00:08:54] i just said in my previous comment that this is something that the administration hasn't
[00:08:58] actually proven any causization between the the number of actual
[00:09:01] uh green card workers or those who come on visas and
[00:09:05] actually the and microsoft and other companies laying Americans
[00:09:08] off. um another another key question would be '
[00:09:12] the the level of skill set, I mean we we know that currently in the United States we we
[00:09:16] have a disenrollment in universities uh
[00:09:19] across the country as the cost of um
[00:09:23] the
[00:09:23] cost of um universities have skyrocketed addition to the job market
[00:09:27] even
[00:09:32] the in in technological skills have have also been uh declining because growth of AI so I think this could be a
[00:09:36] major concern moving forward uh for for uh American
[00:09:40] companies as they seek to look for a...
[00:09:45] Microsoft says that about 80% of its H1 b
[00:09:49] applications last physical year involved extending or
[00:09:52] changing the status of existing employees. Do you think that this
[00:09:56] complicates the administrations claim that companies are using these
[00:10:00] programs you to replace American workers if they're
[00:10:03] only changing them for example extending
[00:10:07] them or changing the status? Well again I
[00:10:11] think it comes back to. the idea that that facts matter here in this this particular
[00:10:15] instance, Microsoft is is making the case that uh that this
[00:10:18] isn't actually true, that they're just renewing visas, so they're making that clear distinction
[00:10:22] between renewing visas and bringing people. back
[00:10:25] into uh to to work versus bringing
[00:10:29] people to work in the United States, so um, so I definitely think it it
[00:10:33] complicates the the narrative from from the current
[00:10:36] administration definitely, but it but is it
[00:10:40] also sort of allow them to to
[00:10:43] justify what what is happening as far as you know
[00:10:47] Microsoft and these technological companies are concerned?
[00:10:51] no, I think I think it doesn't, it doesn't justify that.
[00:10:55] Right, fair enough, let
[00:10:55] me come back, I think
[00:10:56] it doesn't justify this, I'm sorry, come back, let let me just
[00:11:00] come back to you, I'm also going to go to Paul Frit,
[00:11:04] Paul, when we look at what what is being said, in your
[00:11:07] opinion, this argument versus the fact that it's
[00:11:11] impacting us citizens, how do you credit the
[00:11:14] situation, when we look at this
[00:11:16] crackdown, well I, I
[00:11:20] think um, as as my colleague said, we see it
[00:11:24] as ' part of a broader uh crackdown on
[00:11:28] immigration from all sources um that is
[00:11:31] not particularly data driven
[00:11:35] um there there is no evidence for the
[00:11:39] notion that the H1B program is
[00:11:43] diverting is is displacing large numbers
[00:11:47] of US-born tech workers
[00:11:50] um and in fact uh this has been um major source of
[00:11:54] strength. to the US economy has been the ability to attract um
[00:11:58] and integrate and reward um talent from around the
[00:12:02] world. um the uh president Trump a couple of weeks
[00:12:06] ago hosted uh Shin Ping um in Washington and he
[00:12:10] hosted a state dinner that included CEOs
[00:12:13] of tech companies uh and
[00:12:17] 80 to 90% them were foreign born were immigrants who
[00:12:21] themselves had come to the country through the H1B program.
[00:12:25] um foreign born talent uh has been a source of US
[00:12:29] leadership on uh on AI and and other
[00:12:32] uh cutting edge uh tech sectors uh
[00:12:36] so um this uh approach um not
[00:12:40] only uh cracking down on H1Bs but also on various forms
[00:12:44] of student visas on F1s on J1s on uh cutting
[00:12:47] back uh research funds from the federal government um
[00:12:51] it all is going to have a uh very
[00:12:55] harmful effect on the US economy, and in the case of
[00:12:58] H1Bs, given the fact that roughly 70%
[00:13:02] them come from India, it's going to become irritant in
[00:13:05] that bilateral relationship as well. fair
[00:13:09] enough, I know, Dr. Jard that you have limited time, but very
[00:13:12] quickly, the administration is also investigating
[00:13:16] nine leading universities, including Harvard, Yale
[00:13:20] and Stanford over this alleged visa abuse and
[00:13:23] concerns about of course... foreign influence as far as research particularly is
[00:13:27] concerned, where should the government draw the line in
[00:13:31] your opinion between legitimate oversight and political
[00:13:35] interference in these cases? as far as
[00:13:39] particularly higher education is concerned? well, I think that's an
[00:13:42] excellent question, and I think having been a former
[00:13:46] USA, former foreign service officer whose manage US government funds and also
[00:13:50] has been also been in academia. I think it's particularly important to know that the government
[00:13:54] does have the right and we should be on the hook for how we spend US tax
[00:13:58] dollars. however, on the other side of that, there is such notion in this country, and this is something
[00:14:02] that people come from all over
[00:14:03] the world to study here, is that we have academic freedom as which the government
[00:14:07] um doesn't interfere and what we can research, especially um
[00:14:10] on certain topics that that may be considered sensitive, um,
[00:14:14] but this isn't the case, this this
[00:14:16] is a growing concern that the administration is trying to impact or or or
[00:14:20] restrict what can be funded or researched, again
[00:14:24] understanding that, there there there are um restrictions on how we can spend us
[00:14:28] tax payer of funds, but um various critics have noted that
[00:14:31] there's this kind of dubious kind of connection to what the administrator says uh the
[00:14:35] administration claims uh may infringe
[00:14:39] upon um spending spending taxpayer funds in
[00:14:42] responsible way and also uh letting academics and student
[00:14:46] researchers have political freedom or or or have uh freed
[00:14:50] academic freedom to be able to write about or do research on on these different
[00:14:53] topics so - "I think we're seeing we're seeing something that that that has been
[00:14:57] largely unprecedented um here in
[00:15:00] in in the United States where universities who um rely
[00:15:04] especially for certain research programs larger on federal funding either have to
[00:15:08] comply or they have to stop research which is major disadvantage
[00:15:11] to um the the American people you one other aspect to
[00:15:15] add to this part is that you know lest we forget that American
[00:15:19] universities um and and those who come to study here are are it's a
[00:15:23] part of US soft power." um US American education is a
[00:15:27] part of is huge part of that and those who are educated in the United
[00:15:30] States um they when they finish the education they go back to
[00:15:34] their native countries um and
[00:15:36] they take that experience and
[00:15:36] they take living united states
[00:15:38] and they take those relationships with them um and so when when we malign
[00:15:42] that relationship these experiences uh we're really
[00:15:46] doing long-term harm to american interest and to the American
[00:15:49] people um moving
[00:15:51] forward fair enough thank you so much jar thank you for being
[00:15:55] with us for having when we look
[00:15:59] at
[00:16:00] you know what's happened as far as universities like Harvard Yales
[00:16:04] Stanford are concerned Dr. Jared is right you in terms. of
[00:16:07] image and what higher education stands for in the world globally as far
[00:16:11] as US is concerned. earlier on we
[00:16:15] also saw you know what a year ago there was far as
[00:16:19] the universities and and the current donald administration seems to be a continuing
[00:16:23] kind of
[00:16:25] you know policy is that correct and and
[00:16:29] what do you think is behind this kind of an uprore that we
[00:16:33] see now? i
[00:16:37] think it's has many elements, certainly
[00:16:41] at the core of Donald Trump's political
[00:16:43] identity is
[00:16:46] restrictionist approach to immigration.
[00:16:50] now that
[00:16:51] as as Jared said, when it comes to foreign
[00:16:55] students studying in the United States, that has negative
[00:16:59] impact on American soft power throughout the world, because
[00:17:03] many students from around the world come study in the United States
[00:17:07] are... become um sympathetic to American
[00:17:10] values, to American culture, and then take that experience back home.
[00:17:14] It also has a direct impact on American hard power,
[00:17:18] um, because as as I mentioned earlier, um, many
[00:17:22] the foreign students who come here end up staying and end
[00:17:26] up contributing massively to America's
[00:17:29] technological development and economic development.
[00:17:33] Um, we we see the uh, the CEOs of of Nvidia.
[00:17:37] Intel of SpaceX um of Yahoo, I mean all
[00:17:41] foreign born um who brought their
[00:17:45] talents to the US from around the world, so that has
[00:17:49] an impact, but um, in terms of American
[00:17:52] politics
[00:17:54] uh, the the broader attitude of this
[00:17:57] administration toward higher education
[00:18:01] um has um a bit of a darker um
[00:18:04] aspect to it uh which is that um, there has been
[00:18:08] a shift in electoral coalitions over the past several
[00:18:12] years uh where uh the more education you
[00:18:16] have um the less likely you are to support Donald
[00:18:20] Trump and his movement uh and
[00:18:23] that's uh simple fact of electoral math uh there there was
[00:18:27] one um election night uh where uh Mr. Trump
[00:18:31] himself blurted out I love the poorly
[00:18:34] educated
[00:18:36] uh so there is a sense that the universities have become
[00:18:39] a a part of sort of a
[00:18:43] political infrastructure that is
[00:18:46] antithetical to Mr. Trump's ideological
[00:18:50] movement, and so he has attacked them as
[00:18:53] such, that is not good
[00:18:56] for the future of the United
[00:19:00] States as as nation, it's not good for future
[00:19:03] generations. If skilled professionals
[00:19:07] start. beyond the United States, which you
[00:19:11] as far as countries and regions in terms of which countries and
[00:19:14] regions are best position to benefit, Canada,
[00:19:18] European countries, China even, how do you look at
[00:19:21] it? well, Canada,
[00:19:25] in the first instance, um, Europe
[00:19:28] and China certainly have the
[00:19:31] theoretical possibility to benefit, but I think in order for
[00:19:35] that to happen, there would need to be uh dramatic reforms to those
[00:19:38] countries immigration systems. i
[00:19:41] think up until this current
[00:19:44] administration, it had largely been seen as a
[00:19:48] major source of american
[00:19:51] strength in terms of economic
[00:19:54] competition with peers and near piers in Europe and
[00:19:58] China, that unlike those
[00:20:01] countries which are are both facing similar
[00:20:05] demographic challenges from populations
[00:20:09] that the US maintained robust system of immigration that was
[00:20:13] able to integrate both
[00:20:16] high-end talent to
[00:20:20] drive the cutting edges the economy
[00:20:22] technologically, but also
[00:20:25] labor
[00:20:28] that our social security system
[00:20:32] relies upon having a ratio of six active workers
[00:20:36] for every one retir. um, if you stop
[00:20:39] immigration, that that ratio starts to
[00:20:42] fall, and
[00:20:44] the the social welfare system becomes untenable over the long term, and I
[00:20:48] think we've seen versions. that in Europe and in
[00:20:51] China, Canada, I think, um,
[00:20:55] stands to benefit the most immediately in the short term, because Canada,
[00:20:58] like the United States, is nation of immigrants, and
[00:21:02] adheres to value system that
[00:21:06] is is fairly welcoming.
[00:21:10] In terms of,
[00:21:11] you know, the administration says that of course the measures are there to protect American
[00:21:15] jobs, critics warn of wider economic consequences,
[00:21:19] how can the... United States enforced their immigration rules and
[00:21:22] prevent genuine abuses also,
[00:21:25] and of course the fact that they don't undermining the workforce needs,
[00:21:29] research ecosystem, or do you think that the system at present
[00:21:32] is already well placed and
[00:21:35] you know can can is
[00:21:37] workable? Well,
[00:21:41] certainly in order to maintain confidence in the system, you have
[00:21:45] to enforce the rules and you have to police abuses. I
[00:21:48] myself started my... in the
[00:21:51] in the US foreign service as as a visa officer
[00:21:55] uh in what was then Bombay in Mumbai in India um there were
[00:21:59] certainly cases in which Indian firms were
[00:22:03] taking advantage the H1B system the L1 system the
[00:22:07] J1 system in ways in which the program was not
[00:22:10] intended but I think that's not what we're seeing in this current
[00:22:14] administration what we're seeing is a calling into question the
[00:22:18] basic logic and strategic objectives these
[00:22:21] programs, when the administration
[00:22:25] tries to raise the the fee for applying
[00:22:29] for an H1 visa from few hundred dollars to
[00:22:32] $100 thousand dollars, which has now been stopped in the
[00:22:36] courts, that is not a measure that's
[00:22:39] designed to police abuses the program, that's that's a measure that's
[00:22:43] designed to undermine the program as a whole, and I think that's what
[00:22:47] we're seeing with these latest measures as well.
[00:22:51] Right, thank you so much, thank you Paul, thank you for joining us on, of
[00:22:55] course such an important topic, thank you for your very valuable input, of course
[00:22:59] when we look at what's happening as far as the US, as far as this calling
[00:23:02] into question, the HP1 visas and the fact
[00:23:06] that its own ramifications on the system currently in
[00:23:10] place, and of course whether the system itself can
[00:23:14] be undermined completely like Paul said with the kind of
[00:23:17] measures that have been talked about. and and even to
[00:23:21] an extent tried to be put in place, those are important
[00:23:25] questions that perhaps need to be addressed. thank you so much for joining us today
[00:23:29] on
[00:23:29] perspective.
[00:24:00] The persecution of Muslims and other minorities has escalated
[00:24:04] alarmingly since the BJP took power in
[00:24:06] India. Modi regime is a mission to
[00:24:09] systematically marginalize the minorities.
[00:24:13] Muslims and other minorities are victims of Indian state
[00:24:16] terrorism. Minorities are living a state of fear
[00:24:20] and insecurity in India. Global Human rights
[00:24:24] bodies must step into protect minorities in
[00:24:27] India.
[00:24:39] From the heart of South Asia to the cross roads of central Asia, from the turbulent middle
[00:24:43] east and North Africa to the power corridors the west. I think
[00:24:46] that the proxy situation is very...
[00:24:50] problematic uh for the
[00:24:54] US, for Israel, for Iran, the Gulf
[00:24:57] states, for the world at large, this
[00:25:01] conflict could expand, that's what Pakistan and
[00:25:05] Qatar are trying to prevent, Israel wants the
[00:25:09] land of Palestine without the Palestinian people, and that is
[00:25:13] why we see the situation in
[00:25:16] Gaza being getting getting worse. Field
[00:25:20] Marshall Mier and Oman have have kept the channel open when nothing else was working, and
[00:25:24] that matters. And of course the cease fire came through Islamabad.
[00:25:28] Gender persecution is already a crime against humanity under the
[00:25:32] Rome statute, and the International Criminal Court has
[00:25:36] issued arrest warrants for the two top Taliban
[00:25:39] leaders. And Sheik Khani, who is the
[00:25:43] chief justice. I suspect that the Canadians are going
[00:25:47] to pressure on areas that will cause. lot of
[00:25:51] discomfort to the Americans as they're coming into the mid-term elections
[00:25:55] in November. Iran's declaration that it does not
[00:25:58] intend to produce a nuclear weapon.
[00:26:02] relevant, but declarations alone cannot resolve the
[00:26:06] security dilemma. Iran has always said it's prepared to continue the
[00:26:10] conflict, but it's clear that this preferences for this war to end, the US and the
[00:26:14] Trump administration I think is the same, so there is alignment, but
[00:26:17] obviously the problem has been, how we get
[00:26:20] there.
[00:26:32] Afghanistan remains a central hub in the global truck
[00:26:36] trade. According to the UNODC 2025 report,
[00:26:40] it produces 433 tons of opium in
[00:26:43] 2024, nearly 20% the global
[00:26:46] supply. Despite a temporary drop after the
[00:26:50] 2022 ban, cultivation rose again by
[00:26:54] 19% in 2024. Trafficking networks
[00:26:57] stayed active. Average opium prices of
[00:27:00] $750. per kilogram reflect the continued
[00:27:04] demand and functioning smuggling routes. According to the world
[00:27:08] drug report 2025, total global opium
[00:27:11] production in 2024 reached
[00:27:14] 2,140 tons. Myanmar led with
[00:27:18] 995 tons, which is 46%. Followed
[00:27:21] by Afghanistan at 433 tons, which is
[00:27:25] 20%, while Mexico and Colombia produce smaller
[00:27:29] shares. These figures highlight that despite... and
[00:27:33] crackdowns, the global opium trade remains deeply
[00:27:36] entrenched with regional networks adapting and
[00:27:40] expanding. moreover, an cartels are shifting
[00:27:44] from plant-based at drugs to synthetics like crystal meth,
[00:27:47] which are cheaper to produce and easier to hide and harder to
[00:27:51] detect, showing that the threat is moving from fields to
[00:27:55] laboratories spreading globally, but Pakistan is
[00:27:59] actively countering this threat under the national
[00:28:02] anti-narcotics policy 2019 and backed by the laws like
[00:28:06] the control of narcotics substances act
[00:28:09] 1997. Pakistan's anti-narcotics force
[00:28:13] ANF conduct extensive operations in
[00:28:16] Balochistan, KP and Sinth. Using drones,
[00:28:19] satellite imagery and modern agricultural methods.
[00:28:23] Pakistan eradicates poppy crops even in remote
[00:28:26] areas. In 2024-2025 alone Pakistan cleared
[00:28:30] hundreds of hectares of puppy fields. dismantled
[00:28:33] 419 illegal waterboards, destroyed
[00:28:37] 64 solar systems and repatriated
[00:28:40] 110 foreign traffickers. national seizures
[00:28:44] exceeded a 361 metric tons of narcotics
[00:28:47] worth billions, cutting off major supply lines
[00:28:51] with technology driven surveillance, corridor intelligence
[00:28:55] and the interagency coordination, pakistan maintains
[00:28:59] its poppy free status since 2
[00:29:03] and one, the country is not just protecting its borders, it's safeguarding
[00:29:06] the region and the world. Afghanistan may be the source, but
[00:29:10] Pakistan is the shield, leading the fight against narcotics
[00:29:14] and ensuring safer, drug free
[00:29:17] future.
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[00:30:20] first.
[00:30:37] At least 12 people have been killed and 39 others wounded
[00:30:41] in attack on king Khalid international airport in
[00:30:44] Riyadh.
[00:30:50] US President Donald Trump says he will soon decide whether to join Saudi strikes
[00:30:54] against the hoothies boling attack on reard's international airport adding that
[00:30:58] Washington has just.