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[00:00:00] on the airport terminal 4, this was intercepted,
[00:00:04] however it did cause fire, so we are
[00:00:06] of getting reports of injuries once again at the
[00:00:10] airport, and of course this comes after yesterday's
[00:00:13] strike on the airport inside of Riyad, which
[00:00:17] killed um 12 people, but also injured more than
[00:00:21] 309 people, and we're
[00:00:23] a just getting reports out now, the Indian embassy has come
[00:00:27] forward
[00:00:27] of and said one of its citizens who was
[00:00:31] in
[00:00:31] a that deadly blast yesterday has now succumbed to injuries
[00:00:35] and lost his life, so that puts the death toll of
[00:00:39] yesterday's attack up to 13, and it's been a
[00:00:43] really tragic day in Saudi yesterday,
[00:00:46] of we lost
[00:00:46] of a four Saudi citizens were killed, a US
[00:00:50] citizen was killed along with many other
[00:00:53] of nationalalities in that blast that happened, but today as the
[00:00:57] aviation authority is saying, they... did
[00:01:00] of intercept the cruise missile right now at the moment
[00:01:04] damage is being assessed at the airport, operations at the
[00:01:08] airport are not um are are
[00:01:11] ceased right now, so as we know that if you want to take
[00:01:15] a flight out of riad, the best thing to do is contact your
[00:01:19] airline, also check in with the government and with your
[00:01:22] embassy and um of course see what's happening and on
[00:01:26] Thursday three people were also killed in a strike. on
[00:01:30] the airport, so right now we are also seeing
[00:01:34] that there's been a real
[00:01:36] of escalation and we have had our reporters and teams at the
[00:01:40] of hospital today inside of Riyad
[00:01:42] of along with the Saudi health minister visiting the
[00:01:45] victims from yesterday's airport
[00:01:49] of blast and um seeing the extent
[00:01:51] of the injuries. okay, so Lee, we do
[00:01:54] understand there is a statement on the part
[00:01:57] of the Saudi Lad coalition in response to this attack,
[00:02:01] especially on this airport, we we see pattern that has
[00:02:05] developed on the part
[00:02:06] of the huties when it comes to striking the critical
[00:02:09] infrastructure, whether it be
[00:02:12] the infrastructure related to oil, whether it comes
[00:02:16] to the
[00:02:18] of airports, clearly happen to be
[00:02:22] of of the civilian of interest, now given that fact the the saudi coalition has
[00:02:26] pleged decisive response and
[00:02:30] describe this action as a full fledged war
[00:02:33] crime, what could be the manifestation of that?
[00:02:37] of first of all, and secondly, when we talk about the security of such
[00:02:41] civilian infrastructure, including the airports
[00:02:45] infrastructure related to oil,
[00:02:49] of what, what are the preparation levels when it comes
[00:02:53] of to throuting such type of aggressive acts on the
[00:02:57] part of
[00:02:58] of woodies?
[00:03:00] of "just to reiterate, it's been a really sad moment
[00:03:04] in Riad over the last few days as the Houti's
[00:03:08] escalate attacks on civilian infrastructure, people are
[00:03:11] losing their lives,
[00:03:13] of Riad is continuing as normal to some extent, it's
[00:03:18] of conference and event season, so we do see those go ahead, but the
[00:03:21] Saudi Led coalition, as you said has condemned
[00:03:25] yesterday's attack,
[00:03:26] and they've called it a fully fledged war crime, and it's on so."
[00:03:30] infrastructure, right now there is going to be
[00:03:33] of decisive response, what that decisive response looks like
[00:03:37] is not clear at the moment, there are of course
[00:03:41] some options available to Saudi Arabia, they are
[00:03:44] backing Yemen's
[00:03:46] of international government at the moment in its fight against the Huthies inside of
[00:03:50] Yemen, back on Monday, we saw the
[00:03:54] in aliye um the three countries, Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi
[00:03:57] Arabia who are part
[00:03:58] of the Mecca. defense alliance, they all met each
[00:04:02] other, it was emergency meeting, they agreed to activate
[00:04:06] that pact, so right now we're just seeing wheels get into
[00:04:09] motion when it comes into that, but also if we have a look inside of
[00:04:13] Yemen, we have seen the Yeameny government
[00:04:16] of forces and the Saudi coalition retake some of that
[00:04:20] critical area that the Houties managed to
[00:04:24] a overcome last month, so we've seen them retake Babal
[00:04:28] Mendeb straight of course. mocka on the
[00:04:31] of red sea, which is really important because we must remember the
[00:04:34] baba mendeb straight is vital when it comes to
[00:04:38] oil transit, when it comes to shipping, it's one
[00:04:41] of the major choke points and as we know Iran is also trying
[00:04:45] to choke off the straight of homos at the moment, and what's
[00:04:49] interesting is if you have look at the geography
[00:04:52] of the Babandeb straight, it's very flat, so
[00:04:55] of um the Saudi Led coalition and the dawn of Yemen managed to make
[00:05:00] gains along that
[00:05:03] of right, right, Mark, coming back to you, Lee, please stay with us,
[00:05:06] Mark, when we talk about the civilian
[00:05:09] of infrastructure in particular, what could be the ideal of? options with the
[00:05:13] kingdom right now in order to defend those, in order to
[00:05:17] ensure the safety and security the critical civilian
[00:05:20] infrastructure such as the airports and the
[00:05:24] oil related
[00:05:25] infrastructure. let me
[00:05:29] echo my fellow guest panelist comments, it's a sad day when
[00:05:33] any civilians are harmed in armed conflict, and i would
[00:05:36] argue this isn't just armed conflict, it's a terrorist attack that has
[00:05:40] now caused 13 deaths. she's reporting uh in Saudi
[00:05:44] Arabia, including one US individual. Unfortunately, Saudi
[00:05:48] Arabia is facing what many countries are right now, not just in the Gulf, but
[00:05:51] obviously Ukraine for instance as well, where there simply are not enough
[00:05:55] air defense assets to protect everything. Uh, and from a
[00:05:59] military standpoint and from economic standpoint, Saudi
[00:06:03] Arabia is trying to protect its military assets as well as its uh oil
[00:06:07] pipeline, which is its revenue for survival of it's so critical, especially
[00:06:11] that east-west pipeline. uh because uh without it as well as
[00:06:15] without free shipping uh through the red sea via the babal men
[00:06:18] dead straight as well uh Saudi Arabia has been forced to be routing
[00:06:22] the tankers through the cape of good hope uh down around the Horn
[00:06:26] of Africa uh so you
[00:06:28] know that's not good i
[00:06:29] i don't know that there
[00:06:30] are any immediate uh answers to it because there's such a high
[00:06:33] demand uh for air defense assets at this point in time i know
[00:06:37] Pakistan itself is supplied in defense assets I know you've got
[00:06:41] 800 troops. passed you military
[00:06:44] agreements on the ground inside of uh of uh
[00:06:48] Saudi Arabia to try to protect the kingdom
[00:06:50] uh but it's going to take more and there's just this shortage these type of interceptors because I
[00:06:54] don't think the Houties are going to stop um they have to fight an
[00:06:58] asommetrical war against Saudi Arabia and they can't likely
[00:07:02] make a big impact on military installations uh in the kingdom
[00:07:06] but they can
[00:07:07] you know do these heinous type attacks as your own Pakistani prime
[00:07:10] minister said they can't can commit these quote unquote heinous attacks
[00:07:14] against civilian sites and I think they'll continue to do that. I think the best
[00:07:18] defense sadly in this case is for Saudi Arab to go on the
[00:07:21] offense uh and to use his american partners as quickly as they can
[00:07:25] uh to take the fight to the hoothies and not wait um take the as
[00:07:29] we like to say in military analysis take the archer out the person
[00:07:33] firing these missiles uh don't try to intercept the missiles each time
[00:07:37] because that archer has many more missiles uh that you can deny
[00:07:41] him use of if you take him out.
[00:07:44] Right, now president Donald Trump was asked
[00:07:48] whether there could be a possibility the US involvement militarily,
[00:07:52] he responded by saying, we may, now this
[00:07:55] response, how is being, it has been received in
[00:07:59] Saudi Arabia and what are the expectations the Saudis when it comes to the
[00:08:03] US in this regard? I just want
[00:08:07] to reflect something the panelist said just before me when it
[00:08:11] comes to protecting. civilian infrastructure, just from what I'm
[00:08:15] hearing from the ground and what I'm aware of is
[00:08:18] yesterday there were several missiles fired towards the
[00:08:22] airport a rapid rate and um it's very
[00:08:26] difficult I think you know as you did say
[00:08:29] redeploying um these patriot missile systems to
[00:08:33] certain areas - because um Saudi Arabia is absolutely
[00:08:37] vast um as your panelist did say and also
[00:08:40] just the volume of attack. tax has um been something which
[00:08:44] has surprised many, especially someone who lives here
[00:08:48] like um myself, but yes we did hear from President Donald Trump
[00:08:52] of course, no definitive answer from President Donald
[00:08:56] Trump, he said he might, he might not, so we haven't
[00:08:59] actually got a decision yet from the US, so we're
[00:09:03] still waiting on that decision, of course Marco Rubio
[00:09:06] to also condemned what had happened at the
[00:09:10] international airport here. came out and said that we stand with
[00:09:14] Saudi, Saudi are allies and we do know that, but it's going
[00:09:18] to be really interesting to see what the US does at the moment, and the reason for that
[00:09:22] is of course they currently in negotiations with Iran. I know Iran
[00:09:26] has responded to the US response on the seven-day straight of
[00:09:29] Hamos proposal, and they said that the US response is
[00:09:33] insufficient, so we know right now the US is waiting for
[00:09:37] response um from Iran, they've got
[00:09:40] that, it's probably not looking. like that is going to lead to an
[00:09:44] agreement, and we must remember President Donald Trump right now is facing those
[00:09:48] mid-term elections in November, he's got a choice to
[00:09:51] make domestically, it's highly unpopular in the US,
[00:09:55] his war with Iran, and I think the coming days
[00:09:59] and weeks will tell us on what's going to happen, because the mecha defense
[00:10:03] alliance, the plan is obviously to mobilize equipment
[00:10:07] as quickly as possible and to get that into position and the dawn of
[00:10:11] Yemen attacks and the door of yemen operation apologies which
[00:10:14] has been led by the yemeny government and the saudi led coalition from
[00:10:18] the air could make major games so it's a weight and see
[00:10:22] holding pattern here every time i speak to. as they say that's a
[00:10:26] situation we're in right, one quick
[00:10:30] last question from you, Mark, does diplomacy stand any chance when
[00:10:34] it comes to deescalating the situation between the hoothies and the
[00:10:38] kingdom?
[00:10:42] i think your guest panelist is saying it exactly
[00:10:46] right, this is a stalemate at this point in time is also
[00:10:50] kind of a quagmar in part because the us elections
[00:10:53] irant is. uh that they can win this war uh by
[00:10:57] uh weakening president Trump at the polls and while he may be weaken that's
[00:11:01] not going to stop him as commander and cheap from being able to order or having the
[00:11:05] capacity to order uh you know future strikes. i would say
[00:11:09] just quickly independence the
[00:11:10] and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia I would hope that the US would do
[00:11:14] more uh this kind of attack is unacceptable and I would also quickly
[00:11:18] point out one their aspect to all of this uh it is creating an interesting
[00:11:22] dynamic because Pakistan up to now has acted is mediator
[00:11:25] between the US and Iran, and for mediator you need to be objective, but
[00:11:29] at Pakistan is now taking the fight to the hooties uh directly or
[00:11:33] indirectly in Yemen, suddenly you're a participant,
[00:11:36] especially if uh,
[00:11:38] as I, argue that it is, Iran that's behind the authoty attacks, so
[00:11:42] everything is kind of spinning out of control, even though for now up until the
[00:11:46] midterms, I suspect for the most part it to be a
[00:12:11] we are going to understand as to what is
[00:12:15] exactly the Indian authority, the led by
[00:12:18] Bharatiyather party government of course led by its prime
[00:12:21] minister Narendra Modi is doing with me. massive
[00:12:25] demonstrations and the protests which have erupted in
[00:12:29] number of cities, most primarily when we talk about New Delhi
[00:12:33] and Mumbai, especially when we talk about the government
[00:12:37] crackdown against the protest testers in
[00:12:40] Delhi, Delhi has been put under the
[00:12:43] extreme security restrictions, now
[00:12:47] what does that actually signif when the people are protesting
[00:12:51] against an exercise by the election commission of
[00:12:55] India in connivance with the federal authorities, which is of course,
[00:12:59] as I already mentioned Bhartatiya Janata party led by its prime minister Narendra
[00:13:03] Modi when it comes to revising
[00:13:06] intensively the electoral
[00:13:09] roles, as per number of reports,
[00:13:12] 130 million people's names have
[00:13:16] been put off the electoral roles, what
[00:13:20] does that mean, what does that signif and it is
[00:13:23] happening ' under the garb the special
[00:13:27] intensive revision, and the election commission, the
[00:13:31] opposition party say, especially when we talk about Indian National Congress,
[00:13:34] it's leader Rahul Gandhi, he has been put under brief
[00:13:38] detention, likewise when we talk about this
[00:13:41] crackdown, there are reports that more than 10,00
[00:13:45] people have been put under detention, there are barricades
[00:13:48] and even journalists have been
[00:13:51] arrested and their mobile phones and their
[00:13:55] devices have been confiscated by the police and law
[00:13:59] enforcement agencies over there, the opposition blames
[00:14:02] bharti general party and the election commission of India
[00:14:06] going for this exercise in order to
[00:14:10] eliminate the names the eligible voters most particularly
[00:14:14] when we talk about the Muslim voters in order to give
[00:14:17] a disproportionate advantage to Bharatiya Janata Party
[00:14:21] and there is pattern in that particular regard in certain
[00:14:25] constituencies where there was no government of Bharatiya Janata Party
[00:14:29] before such revision of electoral roles Bharatiya
[00:14:32] party came into power after such
[00:14:36] revision, there are international concerns also being raised
[00:14:39] regarding this particular exercise on the part the election commission of
[00:14:42] India and the Bharatiya Janata Party led
[00:14:45] government to understand what exactly is happening
[00:14:49] when we talk about that claim of being the largest democracy in the world
[00:14:53] what does show about the true nature of
[00:14:57] this so-called largest democracy in the world of
[00:15:00] india. for that we are honored to been joined by Mr.
[00:15:04] Khuram Dastagir Khan, he is a former defense and foreign
[00:15:08] minister of Pakistan. Mr. Khan, thank you very much for being with
[00:15:12] us on unfold tonight, really appreciate that.
[00:15:15] 130 million voters
[00:15:18] names have been struck the electoral
[00:15:21] roles in India under the
[00:15:25] so-called special intensive revision the
[00:15:28] electoral roles, how do you look at
[00:15:32] this particular act on the part the election commission of
[00:15:35] India, firstly, and also when we talk
[00:15:39] about its
[00:15:42] connivance with the Bharat party let government over
[00:15:45] there. Thank you for inviting
[00:15:49] me. India's democracy is
[00:15:52] dying, it's been dying for the last 12 years ever
[00:15:56] since BJP under Narendra Modi took
[00:15:59] office, but 12 years of dying has
[00:16:03] brought India's democracy to near
[00:16:06] fatal. near death state in
[00:16:10] which, as you just told your viewers,
[00:16:13] 130 million voters are being
[00:16:16] disenfranchised, for your Pakistani
[00:16:20] viewers, I'll put it into perspective, that the total number of
[00:16:24] Pakistani voters in 2024 was 136
[00:16:27] million, so essentially number of
[00:16:31] voters, nearly equal to all of Pakistan's
[00:16:35] voters is being, struck the roles
[00:16:39] and this is very
[00:16:42] determined and deliberate exercise to
[00:16:46] rig the vote, to finally
[00:16:49] disenfranchise minorities, particularly muslims
[00:16:52] and also to use
[00:16:56] this very selective engineering tool to
[00:16:59] disenfranchise the new cockroach janta
[00:17:03] party which is now protesting and its leaders have been
[00:17:06] arrested. but I think
[00:17:08] this 130 million
[00:17:12] Indians being struck the roles is essentially the
[00:17:15] culmination of a 12 year
[00:17:18] exercise in which
[00:17:21] the abolishing the special state of Kashmir,
[00:17:25] article 370 the Indian constitution back in
[00:17:28] 2019 and then afterwards the citizenship act
[00:17:32] in which again the same exercise was tried in
[00:17:35] which the citizenship. itself the government of India try
[00:17:39] to take away again the principal victims of Muslims
[00:17:43] and there is a systematic repression of minorities
[00:17:46] across India. What has changed, I think this is what
[00:17:50] in my view has brought India's democracy to near
[00:17:54] fatal level, that the
[00:17:58] animous the government, the repression the government has
[00:18:02] now spread from minorities and
[00:18:05] Muslims to all those to oppose it, so
[00:18:09] even Hindus or lower cast Hindus or educated
[00:18:13] students who are now opposing it, are facing the same kind of
[00:18:16] retribution that Muslims and monoters have faced
[00:18:20] in the last 12 years, in fact Muslims in Gujarat
[00:18:24] faced it a genocidal level at the hands of Narendra
[00:18:27] Modi back in 2002, but essentially this
[00:18:31] widening of repression from Muslims to all those
[00:18:35] who oppose the regime is has about India's
[00:18:38] democracy,
[00:18:39] and I think it's very difficult to now call it democracy in which
[00:18:43] this such widespread repression can take place.
[00:18:46] Exactly, we we see that widespread resentment
[00:18:50] among various strat the society, from Muslims,
[00:18:53] it is expanding towards the other
[00:18:56] communities as well, when we specifically try to
[00:18:59] understand as to the international concern
[00:19:03] and India which claims to be the largest democracy in the world
[00:19:07] that...
[00:19:07] is "there exactly are international covenants when it comes to the universal
[00:19:11] declaration of human rights, the international covenant on civil and
[00:19:14] political rights, also the
[00:19:18] entire world happens to be very sensitive when it comes to the
[00:19:22] right to vote and such practices that ultimately lead to
[00:19:26] disinfranchisement of such huge chunk
[00:19:29] of population a certain
[00:19:32] country, isn't the world
[00:19:34] cognisant happening?"
[00:19:36] world right what now in India and what should it be ideally the world is
[00:19:40] sensitive to it, but because of India's size, particularly the
[00:19:44] size of its economy, and we should never forget
[00:19:48] the growth rate that it keeps deceiving the world with, in
[00:19:52] which now there is convincing evidence that India has been
[00:19:56] overestimating it growth numbers for again
[00:20:00] for decades now, but particularly under Bharatiya Janata Party
[00:20:03] rule, which I think now again to
[00:20:07] perfectly candid should be deemed a hinditwa government
[00:20:11] in which
[00:20:13] it is trying to make sure that through its
[00:20:17] engineering and repression that it remains in
[00:20:20] power and the world has taken notice of
[00:20:24] it but India's size and India's economic growth
[00:20:27] stats still force the world to do business
[00:20:31] but as we have seen that there is there is
[00:20:35] a method uh to this
[00:20:38] madness that Narendra Modi is pursuing, but this
[00:20:41] madness has brought India's slowly bringing
[00:20:45] India's growth miracle to an
[00:20:48] end, lord... of
[00:20:51] multinationals and other investments are leaving
[00:20:54] India and there is a flip side to this repression is that
[00:20:58] India's and this Hindutva government
[00:21:02] entrenched hatred of Pakistan and it's
[00:21:06] war bungering against Pakistan has also made the
[00:21:10] world realize that a
[00:21:13] region which India keeps threatening with war and
[00:21:17] particularly
[00:21:17] to nuclear arm neighbors exist side by side. is
[00:21:21] that region which Narendra Modi can plunge into
[00:21:25] what any time is not a good destination for investment so that is India is
[00:21:29] also suffering not only from the international
[00:21:32] sensitivity to repression and voter fraud it is
[00:21:36] also now being paying the price for this war mungering
[00:21:40] against Pakistan by you know by economically
[00:21:43] directly and also of course overall
[00:21:47] if you look at the larger picture uh India's
[00:21:51] alliance with the United States is also in
[00:21:54] trouble because India has not proven to be the kind of foot
[00:21:58] soldier that the United States wanted against China,
[00:22:02] so many kind of what you say
[00:22:06] vulnerabilities brought upon by the
[00:22:09] Hindutvas was
[00:22:12] you know systematic hatred and prejudice
[00:22:15] against minorities and those who oppose it has now brought in
[00:22:20] india to level in which the world is now, i think many the freedom
[00:22:24] house downgraded India's democratic credentials in this year's
[00:22:27] report, so India's democracy is dying, its international
[00:22:31] stature is is being shattered and now
[00:22:35] it's i think it's going to be difficult two years until the next election
[00:22:39] for modi right, mr khan, there is another very
[00:22:43] interesting dimension, you already referred to briefly upon that also the
[00:22:47] cockroach janada party, now there is a there is a
[00:22:51] pressure that is building upon the Bharatiya Janata party led
[00:22:55] government with these massive demonstrations in number of major
[00:22:59] cities including Mumbai, Delhi has been put under
[00:23:02] extreme security restriction also.
[00:23:05] now there is a brief history, the the cockroach the party
[00:23:08] was successfully able to get its
[00:23:11] demand met from the Bharti Janata party when the
[00:23:15] education minister had to design. now
[00:23:19] we for fact, there is
[00:23:22] backing from the opposition, Indian National Congress party
[00:23:26] as well, their leader was briefly detained though as
[00:23:29] well, with the cockroat janada party, other leading
[00:23:32] opposition parties and also there is also a hint on the part
[00:23:36] of Sonam Vongchok also who played a pivotal role in the
[00:23:40] last movement when it came to the resignation the education
[00:23:44] minister, this time around their demand is
[00:23:47] the resignation the chief election. commissioner, given that
[00:23:51] precedence, do you think there would be pressure amply
[00:23:55] mounted on Bharatiya Janata Party that they they once again
[00:23:59] would given or conceed to this new demand of this massive protest
[00:24:03] movement? I like to point out
[00:24:07] that the one the symptoms of a
[00:24:10] prejudice based government is that it
[00:24:13] cannot bear independent institutions, so for
[00:24:17] many decades now, more
[00:24:19] than two decades... India's election commission
[00:24:23] was sort the poster child of India's democracy in which it was seen as
[00:24:27] a credible institution that despite all the
[00:24:30] corruption and mismanagement and
[00:24:33] embazzlement that happened in India that at least the Indian election
[00:24:37] commission was a credible institution that ran relatively fair elections
[00:24:41] and now that is no longer true so
[00:24:44] similarly the another institution
[00:24:48] which became the cause of the cockroach janta party to come into
[00:24:52] being was the college entral system in which the
[00:24:55] examination system was exposed as
[00:24:58] rigged and so so many hundred thousand young
[00:25:02] people who wanted to go into the Indian civil
[00:25:06] service realized that this again another
[00:25:09] institution that they believed in was rigged and
[00:25:13] corrupt and therefore they protested against it, it's very interesting that the
[00:25:17] handful of young people who have had no political experience. "most
[00:25:21] them are under the age of 32, have have organized
[00:25:24] themselves into this this protest, but
[00:25:28] again this protest which is first was
[00:25:32] against the education minister, now they are protesting against the election
[00:25:35] commission, i it's too early to say whether the
[00:25:39] election commissioner would resign, but it's very clear that
[00:25:42] one major aspect of this hindutva regime for the last 12
[00:25:46] years has been the slow decay.
[00:25:50] of Indian institutions which is now exposed for all the world
[00:25:54] to
[00:26:35] Afghanistan remains a central hub in the global truck
[00:26:39] trade. According to the UNODC 2025 report,
[00:26:43] it produced 433 tons of opium in
[00:26:46] 2024, nearly 20% the global
[00:26:49] supply. Despite a temporary drop after the
[00:26:53] 2022 ban, cultivation rose again by
[00:26:56] 19% in 2024. Trafficking networks
[00:27:00] stayed active, average opiium. prices of
[00:27:03] $750 per kilogram reflect the continued
[00:27:07] demand and functioning smuggling routes. According to the world
[00:27:11] drug report 2025, total global opium
[00:27:14] production in 2024 reached
[00:27:17] 2,140 tons. Myanmar led with
[00:27:21] 995 tons, which is 46%, followed by
[00:27:25] Afghanistan at 433 tons, which is
[00:27:28] 20%, while Mexico and Colombia produce smaller
[00:27:32] shares. These figures highlight that despite bads
[00:27:35] and crackdowns, the global opium trade remains deeply
[00:27:39] entrenched with regional networks adapting and
[00:27:43] expanding. Moreover, aan cartels are shifting from
[00:27:47] plant-based at drugs to synthetics like crystal meth, which
[00:27:51] are cheaper to produce and easier to hide and harder to
[00:27:54] detect, showing that the threat is moving from fields to
[00:27:58] laboratories spreading globally, but Pakistan is...
[00:28:02] actively countering this threat under the national
[00:28:05] anti-narcotics policy 2019 and backed by the laws like
[00:28:09] the control of narcotics substances at
[00:28:12] 1997, pakistan's anti-narcotics force
[00:28:16] (Anf) conducts extensive operations in
[00:28:19] Balochistan, kp and sin. using drones,
[00:28:22] satellite imagery and modern agricultural methods,
[00:28:26] pakistan eradicates poppy crops even in remote
[00:28:29] areas. in 2024, 2025 alone, Pakistan cleared
[00:28:33] hundreds of hectares of puppy fields, dismantled
[00:28:36] 419 illegal waterboards, destroyed
[00:28:40] 64 solar systems and repatriated
[00:28:43] 110 foreign traffickers. National seizures
[00:28:47] exceeded 361 metric tons of narcotics
[00:28:50] worth billions, cutting off major supply lines with
[00:28:54] technology driven surveillance, corridor intelligence
[00:28:58] and the interagency coordination, pakistan maintain
[00:29:02] its puppy free status since 2001. The
[00:29:06] country is not just protecting its borders, it's safeguarding the
[00:29:10] region and the world. Afghanistan may be the source, but
[00:29:13] Pakistan is the shield, leading the fight against narcotics
[00:29:17] and ensuring safer, drug free
[00:29:20] future.
[00:30:37] a Pakistani resident has been killed and 11 others wounded in a fresh
[00:30:40] hoothi strike on Riyadh's international
[00:30:42] airport.
[00:30:50] The Saudi Lead Coalition says it has intercepted houti launched ballistic
[00:30:54] missile targeting khames musheid while Saudi civil defense has
[00:30:58] declared the threat for.