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[00:00:00] at the sunni world uh and and it's come to firation, we've seen that
[00:00:04] just on the attacks that Iran has been willing to do during the Gulf war and
[00:00:07] Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the like and the United Arab
[00:00:11] Emirates, and and now we've certainly seen it in terms of
[00:00:15] of indirectly through the hoothies by them attacking uh Saudi
[00:00:18] Arabia, so you don't think Iran is that
[00:00:21] mediator simply because they're behind this, it's it's to their benefit
[00:00:25] right now to create second front uh
[00:00:28] of and the huthies are willing to do that now, just quickly add here, the
[00:00:31] the the hoothies act in many different ways, clearly their chief backer is
[00:00:35] in Iran, but obviously they have their own interests, so this is just one
[00:00:39] angle, they had a
[00:00:40] of long-term war against
[00:00:41] of Saudi Arabia, but they're also willing to be allies to help Iran out
[00:00:45] because in their minds it helps them out. Okay, Mark, I'll come back to you,
[00:00:49] we are honored to being joined by another participant, Miss Lee and Jarens
[00:00:53] zenter at al arabia English, lave, thank you very much for being with
[00:00:57] us, once again
[00:00:58] of taking time out for unfold really. appreciate you being with us once
[00:01:02] again, a very critical moment when there
[00:01:05] are
[00:01:06] a direct strikes against the civilian infrastructure by the
[00:01:09] hoothies inside kingdom of Saudi
[00:01:12] of Arabia, could you give us an understanding what's the situation right now,
[00:01:16] there are reports
[00:01:17] of the civil civil aviation
[00:01:20] disruption there as well visa with
[00:01:23] of this airport as well, hundreds of lies either been cancelled
[00:01:27] or diverted, what's the situation on the ground? as we
[00:01:30] speak, good evening to
[00:01:33] of you, so the situation on the ground is that we have had
[00:01:37] of official confirmation today from the civil aviation
[00:01:41] authority that injuries have been reported
[00:01:45] of once again at the international airport here in
[00:01:48] Riad, King Harlad
[00:01:51] of airport, there was a missile strike on the airport
[00:01:55] terminal 4, this was intercepted, however it did
[00:01:59] cause fire. so we are getting reports of injuries
[00:02:02] once again at the airport and of course this comes after
[00:02:06] yesterday's strike on the airport inside of
[00:02:10] Riyad which killed um 12 people but also
[00:02:13] injured more than 300 and nine people and we're
[00:02:17] a just getting reports out now the Indian embassy has come
[00:02:21] of forward and said one of its citizens who was in
[00:02:25] that
[00:02:26] a deadly blast yesterday has now succumbed to injuries.
[00:02:30] and lost his life, so that puts the death toll of yesterday's
[00:02:34] attack up to 13, and it's been a really
[00:02:37] tragic day in Saudi
[00:02:40] of yesterday, we lost a four Saudi citizens were killed,
[00:02:44] a US citizen was killed along with many other
[00:02:47] of nationalities in that blast that happened, but today, as the
[00:02:51] aviation authority is saying, they did
[00:02:54] of intercept the cruise missile, right now, at the moment,
[00:02:58] damage has been assessed. at the airport, operations at the
[00:03:02] airport are not um are are
[00:03:05] ceased right now, so as we know that if you want to take
[00:03:09] a flight out of read, the best thing to do is contact your
[00:03:13] airline, also check in with the government and with your
[00:03:16] embassy and um of course see what's happening, and on
[00:03:20] Thursday three people were also killed in a strike
[00:03:24] on the airport, so right now we are also
[00:03:28] seeing that there's been a real esc.
[00:03:30] of relation and we have had our reporters and teams at the
[00:03:34] of hospital today inside of Riyad
[00:03:36] of along with the Saudi health minister visiting the
[00:03:39] victims from yesterday's airport
[00:03:43] of blast and um seeing the extent
[00:03:45] of the injuries. okay so Lee we do
[00:03:48] understand there is a statement on the part
[00:03:51] of the Saudi Lad coalition in response to this attack
[00:03:55] especially on this airport we we see pattern that has
[00:03:59] developed. on the part
[00:04:00] of the huties when it comes to striking the critical
[00:04:05] of infrastructure, whether it be the infrastructure
[00:04:08] related to oil, whether it comes to the
[00:04:11] airports, clearly happen to be
[00:04:14] of the civilian
[00:04:15] of interest
[00:04:16] of now, given that fact the the saudi coalition has
[00:04:20] pleged decisive response and
[00:04:24] describe this action as a full fledged war
[00:04:27] crime, what could be the manifest? station of that,
[00:04:31] of first of all, and secondly, when we talk about the security of
[00:04:35] of such of civilian infrastructure, including the
[00:04:38] airports, infrastructure related to
[00:04:41] oil,
[00:04:43] of what, what are the preparation levels when it comes
[00:04:47] of to think such type of aggressive acts on
[00:04:51] the part of
[00:04:52] of voodies?
[00:04:54] of just to reiterate, it's been a really sad moment in
[00:04:58] Riad over the... the last few days as the hoothis escalate
[00:05:02] attacks on civilian infrastructure, people are
[00:05:05] losing their lives,
[00:05:07] of riad is continuing as normal to some extent, it's
[00:05:11] conference and event season, so we do see those go ahead,
[00:05:15] but the Saudi Lad coalition, as you said, has condemned
[00:05:19] yesterday's attack, and they've called it a fully fledged war
[00:05:22] crime, and it's on civilian infrastructure. right now,
[00:05:26] there is going to be decisive response, what that decisive response
[00:05:30] looks like is not clear at the moment, there are
[00:05:34] of course some options available to Saudi Arabia,
[00:05:38] they are backing Yemen's international government at the
[00:05:41] moment in... fight against the hoothies inside of Yemen back
[00:05:45] on Monday we saw the al um the three
[00:05:48] countries, Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia who are
[00:05:52] part the Mecca Defense Alliance, they all met
[00:05:56] each other, there was an emergency meeting, they agreed to
[00:05:59] activate that pact, so right now we're just seeing wheels get
[00:06:03] into motion when it comes into that, but also we have a look
[00:06:06] inside of Yemen, we have seen the Yeameni government
[00:06:10] forces and the Saudi coalition. retake some of
[00:06:14] that critical area that the hooties managed to
[00:06:18] overcome last month, so we've seen them retake
[00:06:22] babal mendeb straight, of course, mocka on the red sea, which
[00:06:26] is really important because we must remember the babamendeb
[00:06:29] straight is vital when it comes to oil
[00:06:33] transit, when it comes to shipping, it's one the major toak points and as we
[00:06:37] know Iran is also trying to choke off the straight of
[00:06:41] homos at the moment. and what's interesting is if you have look at
[00:06:44] the geography the Babandeb straight, it's very
[00:06:48] flat, so um the Saudi Led coalition and the dawn
[00:06:52] of Yemen managed to make gains along
[00:06:54] there, right, right, Mark coming
[00:06:58] back to you, leave, please stay with us, Mark, when we talk about
[00:07:02] the civilian infrastructure in particular, what could be the ideal
[00:07:06] options with the kingdom right now in order to defend
[00:07:10] those, in order to ensure the safety? security of this critical
[00:07:14] civilian infrastructure such as the airports and
[00:07:17] the oil related
[00:07:19] infrastructure. let
[00:07:23] me echo my uh fellow guest panelist comments, it's a sad day uh when
[00:07:27] any civilians are harmed in armed conflict, and I would
[00:07:31] argue this isn't just armed conflict, it's a terrorist attack that has
[00:07:34] now caused 13 deaths as she's reporting uh in Saudi
[00:07:38] Arabia, including one US individual. unfortunately Saudi...
[00:07:42] Arabia is facing what many countries are right now, not just in the Gulf, but
[00:07:45] obviously Ukraine for instance as well, where there simply are not enough
[00:07:49] air defense assets to protect everything, and from a
[00:07:53] military standpoint and from economic standpoint, Saudi
[00:07:57] Arabia is trying to protect its military assets as well as its oil
[00:08:01] pipeline, which is its revenue for survival that's so critical, especially
[00:08:05] that east-west pipeline, because uh without it as well as
[00:08:09] without free shipping uh through the red sea via the uh
[00:08:13] Straight as well, uh, Saudi Arabia has been forced to be routing the tankers
[00:08:17] through the cape of good hope uh, down around the Horn of
[00:08:20] Africa uh, so that's not good. I i don't know that
[00:08:24] there are any immediate uh answers to it because there's such a high
[00:08:27] demand for air defense assets at this point in time. I know
[00:08:31] Pakistan itself has supplied air defense assets. I know you've got
[00:08:35] 8,00 troops from past uh, you military
[00:08:38] agreements on the ground inside of
[00:08:41] uh of uh Saudi Arabia to try to protect the kingdom, but it's going to take
[00:08:45] more, and there's just the shortage these type of interceptors, because I don't think the
[00:08:49] Houties are going to stop. They have to fight an asymmetrical war
[00:08:53] against Saudi Arabia, and they can't likely make a big impact
[00:08:57] on military installations uh in the kingdom, but they
[00:09:00] can, do these heinous type attacks, as your own Pakistani uh
[00:09:04] Prime Minister Shaz said, they can commit these quote unquote heinous
[00:09:08] attacks against civilian sites and I think they'll continue to do that. I think the
[00:09:12] best. defense sadly in this case is for Saudi Arabi to go on the
[00:09:15] offense uh and to use his amec partners as quickly as they can
[00:09:19] uh to take the fight to the hoothies and not wait um take the as
[00:09:23] is we like to say in military analysis take the archer out the person
[00:09:27] firing these missiles uh don't try to intercept the missiles each time
[00:09:31] because that archer has many more missiles uh that you can deny
[00:09:35] him use of if you take him out
[00:09:38] right now president Donald Trump was
[00:09:41] asked there could be a possibility the US involvement
[00:09:45] militarily, he responded by saying we
[00:09:47] may. now this response, how is being
[00:09:51] it has been received in Saudi Arabia and what are the expectations
[00:09:55] the Saudies when it comes to the US in this
[00:09:59] regard? I just want to reflect something the
[00:10:03] panelist said just before me when it comes to protecting
[00:10:06] civilian infrastructure, just from what I'm hearing from the
[00:10:10] ground and what I'm aware of. is yesterday there
[00:10:14] were several missiles fired towards the airport a
[00:10:17] rapid rate and um it's very difficult
[00:10:21] I think you know as you did say redeploying.
[00:10:25] um these patriot missile systems to certain areas -
[00:10:28] because um Saudi Arabia is absolutely vast um as your panelist
[00:10:32] did say and also just the volume of
[00:10:36] attacks has um been something which has surprised many,
[00:10:40] especially someone who lives here like um myself,
[00:10:44] but yes we did hear from President Donald Trump of course no
[00:10:47] definitive answer from President Donald Trump, he
[00:10:51] said he might he might not, so we haven't actually got a...
[00:10:55] decision yet from the US, so we're still waiting on
[00:10:59] that decision, of course Marco Rubio to also
[00:11:02] condemned what had happened at the international airport
[00:11:06] here, came out and said that we stand with Saudi, Saudi are
[00:11:09] allies and we do know that, but it's going to be really interesting to
[00:11:13] see what the US does at the moment, and the reason for that is of course they
[00:11:17] currently in negotiations with Iran, I know Iran has responded
[00:11:21] to the US response on the seven-day straight of Hamos proposed.
[00:11:25] and they said that the US response is insufficient, so we know right
[00:11:29] now the US is waiting for response
[00:11:33] um from Iran, they've got that, it's probably not looking
[00:11:37] like that is going to lead to an agreement, and we must remember President Donald
[00:11:41] Trump right now is facing those mid-term elections in November, he's got
[00:11:44] a choice to make domestically, it's highly
[00:11:48] unpopular in the US, his war with Iran,
[00:11:51] and I think the coming days and weeks will tell us. what's going to
[00:11:55] happen because the mecha defense alliance,
[00:11:58] the plan is obviously to mobilize equipment as quickly as
[00:12:01] possible and to get that interposition and the dawn of yemen
[00:12:05] attacks and the dawnment of Yemen operation apologies which has
[00:12:09] been led by the Yeameni government and the Saudi led coalition from the
[00:12:13] air could make major gains, so it's a weight and see
[00:12:16] holding pattern here, every time I speak to analys, they say that's a
[00:12:20] situation we're in right, one quick
[00:12:24] last question. from you mark, does diplomacy stand any chance when
[00:12:28] it comes to de-escalating the situation between the hoothies and the
[00:12:32] kingdom?
[00:12:37] i think your guest panelist is saying it exactly
[00:12:40] right, this is a stailmate at this point in time, it's also
[00:12:44] kind of a quagmar uh in part because the US elections
[00:12:48] iran is betting uh that they can win this war uh by
[00:12:52] uh weakening president trump at the polls and while he's may be winken that's
[00:12:55] not going to stop him as commander and chief uh from being able to order or having
[00:12:59] the capacity to order uh
[00:13:01] you know future strikes I would say just quickly and defense
[00:13:04] in the the kingdom of Saudi Arabia I would hope that the US would do
[00:13:08] more uh this kind of attack is unacceptable and I would ask quickly
[00:13:12] point out one their aspect to all of this uh it is creating an interesting
[00:13:16] dynamic because Pakistan up to now has acted as mediator
[00:13:19] between the US and Iran and for mediator you need to be objective but
[00:13:23] at Pakistan is now the fight to the hoothies uh directly or
[00:13:27] indirectly in yemen uh suddenly you're participant especially
[00:13:31] if uh as i you know argue that it is a ran that's behind
[00:13:34] the the attacks so everything is kind of spinning out of
[00:13:38] control even though for now up until the midterms suspect for the most
[00:13:41] part it to be a stalemate mr mark
[00:13:45] d co-founder at interrupt 360 thank you very much for taking
[00:13:49] time out for unfold tonight really appreciate that lee and jarence
[00:13:53] presenter
[00:13:54] at al Thank you very much for your timely for being with us on unfold tonight, really
[00:13:58] appreciate you also taking time out, with that we come to the end
[00:14:01] the first segment of today's show, in the second segment we
[00:14:05] are going to understand as to what is
[00:14:09] exactly the Indian authority, the led by Bharatiya
[00:14:13] janata party government of course led by its prime minister
[00:14:16] Narendra Modi is doing with massive demonstrations
[00:14:20] and the protests which have erupted in number of cities
[00:14:24] most pr'. merily when we talk about New Delhi and
[00:14:27] Mumbai, especially when we talk about the government
[00:14:31] crackdown against the protest testers in
[00:14:34] Delhi, Delhi has been put under the
[00:14:37] extreme security restrictions, now what
[00:14:41] does that actually signif when the people are protesting against
[00:14:45] an exercise by the election commission of
[00:14:48] India in connivance with the federal authorities,
[00:14:52] which is of course as have already mention. Bharatiya party
[00:14:56] led by its
[00:14:57] prime minister Narendra Modi when it comes to revising
[00:15:00] intensively the electoral
[00:15:03] roles. As per number of reports,
[00:15:07] 130 million people's names have
[00:15:10] been put off the electoral roles. What
[00:15:14] does that mean? What does that signif and it is
[00:15:17] happening under the garb the special
[00:15:21] intensive revision and the election commission? the
[00:15:25] opposition party say, especially when we talk about Indian National Congress,
[00:15:29] it's leader Rahul Gandhi, he has been put under brief
[00:15:32] detention, likewise when we talk about this
[00:15:35] crackdown, there are rep that more than 10000
[00:15:39] people have been put under detention, there are barricades
[00:15:42] and even journalists have been
[00:15:45] arrested and their mobile phones and their
[00:15:49] devices have been confiscated by the police and law
[00:15:53] enforcement agencies over there. the opposition blames
[00:15:56] bharatiya janata party and the election commission of india
[00:16:00] going for this exercise in order to
[00:16:04] eliminate the names the eligible voters most. particularly
[00:16:08] when we talk about the Muslim voters in order to give
[00:16:11] a disproportionate advantage to Bharatiya Janata Party
[00:16:15] and there is pattern in that particular regard in certain
[00:16:19] constituencies where there was no government of Bharatiya party
[00:16:23] before such revision of electoral roles, bharatiya janata
[00:16:26] party came into power after such
[00:16:30] revision. There are international concerns also being raised
[00:16:33] regarding this particular exercise on the part the election commission of India.
[00:16:38] and the Bharatiya Janata Party led government to
[00:16:41] understand what exactly is happening when we talk about that
[00:16:45] claim of being the largest democracy in the world, what does
[00:16:48] this show about the true nature of this so-called
[00:16:52] largest democracy in the world of India, for that we are
[00:16:56] honored to being joined by Mr. Khuram Dastagir Khan, he is a
[00:17:00] former defense and foreign minister of Pakistan.
[00:17:03] Mr. Khan, thank you very much for being with us on unfold tonight.
[00:17:07] need to really appreciate that 130
[00:17:11] million voters names have been struck
[00:17:15] the electoral roles in India
[00:17:18] under the so-called special intensive
[00:17:22] revision the electoral roles. how do
[00:17:25] you look at this particular act on the part the election
[00:17:29] commission of India? firstly and also when we talk
[00:17:33] about its
[00:17:36] conneivance with the bharat party led government over
[00:17:39] there, thank you for inviting
[00:17:43] me, India's democracy is
[00:17:46] dying, it's been dying for the last 12 years ever
[00:17:50] since BJP under Narendra Modi took
[00:17:53] office, but 12 years of dying has
[00:17:57] brought India's democracy to near
[00:18:00] fatal or near death state,
[00:18:04] in which as you just told your view
[00:18:07] 130 million voters are being
[00:18:11] disenfranchised, for your Pakistani
[00:18:14] viewers, I'll put it into perspective that the total number of
[00:18:18] Pakistani voters in 2024 was 136
[00:18:22] million, so essentially number of
[00:18:26] voters nearly equal to all of Pakistan's
[00:18:29] voters is being struck the roles
[00:18:32] and this is very
[00:18:36] determined. and deliberate exercise to
[00:18:40] rig the vote, to finally
[00:18:43] disenfranchise minorities, particularly muslims and
[00:18:46] also to use
[00:18:50] this very selective engineering tool to
[00:18:53] disenfranchise the new cockroat janta
[00:18:57] party which is now protesting and its leaders have been
[00:19:00] arrested, but I think
[00:19:02] this 130 million
[00:19:06] Indians being struck the roles is essentially the
[00:19:10] calmination of a 12 year
[00:19:12] exercise in which
[00:19:15] the abolishing the special state of Kashmir,
[00:19:19] article 370 the Indian constitution back in
[00:19:22] 2019 and then afterwards the citizenship act
[00:19:26] in which again the same exercise was tried in
[00:19:29] which the citizenship itself the government of India
[00:19:33] tried to take away again the principal victims of Muslims.
[00:19:37] "and there is a systematic repression of minorities across
[00:19:41] India. what has changed, I think this is what in my
[00:19:45] view has brought India's democracy to near fatal
[00:19:48] level, that the
[00:19:52] animous the government, the repression the government has
[00:19:56] now spread from minorities and
[00:19:59] Muslims to all those who oppose it, so
[00:20:03] even Hindus or lower cast Hindus or educated
[00:20:07] students." "who are now opposing it are facing the same kind of
[00:20:10] retribution that muslims and minorites have faced
[00:20:14] in the last 12 years, in fact Muslims in Gujarat
[00:20:18] faced it a genocidal level at the hands of Narendra
[00:20:21] Modi back in 2002, but essentially this
[00:20:25] widening of repression from Muslims to all those
[00:20:29] who oppose the regime, it has brought India's
[00:20:32] democracy, and I think it's very difficult to now call it
[00:20:35] democracy in which this." such widespread repression can
[00:20:39] take place, exactly, we we see that wide
[00:20:42] spread resentment among various start the society from muslims
[00:20:46] it is expanding towards the other.
[00:20:50] communities as well, when we specifically try to
[00:20:53] understand as to the international concern
[00:20:57] and India which claims to be the largest democracy in the
[00:21:00] world, that there are international covenants when it comes to the
[00:21:04] universal declaration of human rights, the international covenant on
[00:21:08] civil and political rights, also
[00:21:11] the entire world happens to be very sensitive when it comes
[00:21:15] to the right to vote and such practices that
[00:21:19] ultimately... to disenfranchisement of such huge
[00:21:23] chunk of population a certain
[00:21:26] country, isn't the world
[00:21:29] cognis, what is exactly happening right now in India
[00:21:33] and what should it be ideally? the world is sensitive to it, but because
[00:21:36] of India's size, particularly the size of its economy, and we should
[00:21:40] never forget the growth rate that it keeps
[00:21:44] deceiving the world with, in which now there is convincing
[00:21:48] evidence that India has been... overestimating it growth
[00:21:51] numbers for again for decades
[00:21:54] now, but particularly under Bharatiya Janata Party's
[00:21:58] rule, which I think now again to be
[00:22:01] perfectly candid should be deemed a Hindutwa government
[00:22:05] in which
[00:22:07] it is trying to make sure that through its
[00:22:11] engineering and repression that it remains in
[00:22:14] power and the world has taken notice of
[00:22:18] it, but India's side. and India's economic growth
[00:22:21] stats still force the world to do business,
[00:22:25] but as we have seen that there is there is a
[00:22:29] method to this
[00:22:32] madness that Narendra Modi is pursuing, but this
[00:22:35] madness has brought India's slowly bringing
[00:22:39] India's growth miracle to an
[00:22:42] end, lot of
[00:22:45] multinationals and other investments are leaving
[00:22:49] India and "there is a flip side to this repression is that
[00:22:53] India's and this Hindutva governments
[00:22:56] entrenched hatred of Pakistan and its
[00:23:00] war bungering against Pakistan has also made
[00:23:04] the world realize that a
[00:23:07] region which India keeps threatening with war and particularly with
[00:23:11] two nuclear arm neighbors exist side by side is
[00:23:15] that region which Narendra Modi can plunge into
[00:23:19] war any time. is not a good destination for investment, so that is India
[00:23:23] is also suffering not only from the international
[00:23:26] sensitivity to repression and voter fraud, it is
[00:23:30] also now being paying the price for this war munging against
[00:23:34] Pakistan by you by economically
[00:23:37] directly, and also of course
[00:23:41] overall, if you look at the larger picture,
[00:23:44] India's alliance with the United States is
[00:23:47] also in trouble because India has not proven to
[00:23:51] be the kind of foot soldier that the United States wanted against
[00:23:55] China, so many kind of
[00:23:59] what you say, vulnerabilities brought upon by the
[00:24:03] Hinditwa's systematic
[00:24:07] hatred and prejudice against
[00:24:10] minorities and those who oppose it has now brought India to
[00:24:14] level in which the world is now, I think many the freedom
[00:24:18] house downgraded in India. has democratic credentials in this year's
[00:24:21] report, so India's democracy is dying, its international
[00:24:25] stature is is being shattered and now
[00:24:29] it's, I think it's going to be difficult two years until the next election
[00:24:33] for more right, Mr. Khan, there is another very
[00:24:37] interesting dimension, you already referred to briefly upon that also, the
[00:24:41] cockroach Janata party, now there is a there is a
[00:24:45] pressure that is building upon the Bharatiya Gen the party led
[00:24:49] government. with these massive demonstrations in number of major
[00:24:53] cities including Mumbai, Delhi has been put under
[00:24:56] extreme security restriction also. Now there is a brief
[00:25:00] history, the the cockroach general party was successfully able
[00:25:04] to get its demand met from the Bharatiya
[00:25:08] Janata Party when the education minister had to
[00:25:11] design. Now we know for fact there
[00:25:15] is backing from the opposition, Indian National
[00:25:19] Congress Party. as well, their leader was briefly detained though as
[00:25:23] well, with the corker janada party, other leading
[00:25:26] opposition parties and also there is also a hint on the part
[00:25:30] of Sonam Vangkok also who played a pivatal role in the
[00:25:34] last movement when it came to the resignation the education
[00:25:38] minister, this time around their demand is
[00:25:42] the resignation the chief election commissioner, given that
[00:25:46] precedence, do you think there would be pressure amply mounted?
[00:26:02] symptoms of a prejudice based
[00:26:06] government is that it cannot bear
[00:26:09] independent institutions. so for many decades now, more than two
[00:26:13] decades, India's election commission was
[00:26:17] sort the poster child of India's democracy, which you it was seen as
[00:26:21] a credible institution that despite all the
[00:26:24] corruption and mismanagement and
[00:26:27] embazzlement that happens in India and at least the Indian election
[00:26:31] commission. was a credible institution that ran relatively fair
[00:26:35] elections, now that is no longer true, so
[00:26:39] similarly the another institution
[00:26:42] which became the cause the cockroach janta party to come into
[00:26:46] being was the college entrance system in which the
[00:26:49] examination system was exposed as
[00:26:52] rigged and so so many hundred thousand young
[00:26:56] people who wanted to go into the Indian civil
[00:27:00] service realized that this though again another
[00:27:03] institution that they believed in was rigged and
[00:27:07] corrupt and therefore they protested against it, it's very interesting that the
[00:27:11] handful of young people who have had no political experience, most them are
[00:27:15] under the age of 32, have have organized
[00:27:18] themselves into this this protest, but
[00:27:22] again this protest which is first was
[00:27:26] against the education minister, now they are protesting as the election
[00:27:29] commission, i it's too early. to say whether the election
[00:27:33] commissioner would resign, but it's very clear that
[00:27:36] one major aspect of this Hindutva regime for the last 12
[00:27:40] years has been the slow decay
[00:27:44] of Indian institutions which is now exposed
[00:27:48] for all the world to see. Mr. Khuram Dastager Khan,
[00:27:51] former defense and foreign minister of Pakistan, thank you very much for taking time out
[00:27:55] for this episode of Funfold tonight, we really appreciate with that we come
[00:27:59] to the end of today's episode of Funfold, till the next. want to good care
[00:28:03] for
[00:28:03] series.
[00:28:39] Kashmiri women are bravely facing brutalities at the hands of
[00:28:43] Indian troops. Indian troops have martered more than
[00:28:46] 2300 kashmiri women since
[00:28:49] 1989. Kashmiri women are mentally
[00:28:53] tortured through enforced disappearances of their loved
[00:28:56] ones. Indian troops are using rape of women as a
[00:29:00] weapon of war to crush Kashmir. struggle for right to self
[00:29:03] determination, it is time for international
[00:29:07] community to come forward and protect Kashmiri women from Indian
[00:29:11] state
[00:29:11] terrorism.
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[00:30:28] The president on the advice of Prime Minister Mohammad Shabbaz Sharief imposes
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[00:30:49] The government defends the imposition of emergency in Khaib Pakhtunkhah as a
[00:30:53] constitutional measure i made rising terrorism and forms and 11 member
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