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[00:00:02] In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Governor
[00:00:05] Sahib, thank you very much. Corps Commander Sahib, thank
[00:00:08] you.
[00:00:10] that you invited us,
[00:00:15] now the US is waiting for a and the best part is that today is the first day
[00:00:18] that I can proudly say that the federal government and
[00:00:22] the provincial government are on the same page.
[00:00:24] We have done a lot in the last two and a half years.
[00:00:27] بڑا۔
[00:00:33] And the most difficult
[00:00:36] work was for those people who were fighting this war,
[00:00:39] and when they looked at the back end,
[00:00:42] no one even attended the funerals here.
[00:00:45] And I remember
[00:00:48] that we used to arrive from Islamabad, and the people
[00:00:52] who lived here would not come to those funerals.
[00:00:55] تھے
[00:00:57] So, I commend the courage of those people
[00:01:22] and lower my head for this purpose
[00:01:26] that a only, that there should be no compromise in any way, but no war, in any case,
[00:01:30] no matter how many resources you bring, no matter what you do, until
[00:01:34] the government there does not lead it, that war cannot
[00:01:38] be won. You can look at as many wars
[00:01:41] in the world as you want. This war cannot be like this, that I
[00:01:45] say that I am against terrorism, but after that,
[00:01:49] no other sentence comes after that. We saw this in two and a half years,
[00:01:53] میں دیکھا
[00:01:54] and
[00:01:57] not once, not twice, but dozens of times.
[00:02:03] is being struck off
[00:03:00] that when the government leads it, these very people will give you results.
[00:03:04] These
[00:03:05] people
[00:03:08] did not come from the sky or change; they are all the same people.
[00:03:12] And you will see
[00:03:15] that
[00:03:18] when a government leads it, how good the result will be.
[00:03:21] گا
[00:03:24] You people should not panic, especially all the
[00:03:27] advisors and all the other people,
[00:04:00] that we will stand with you, Insha'Allah. You will see that Allah will give the result.
[00:04:04] Our intention is pure. Allah will surely give us a good result.
[00:04:08] گے
[00:04:10] I will again request you all
[00:04:14] that
[00:04:17] we should go to that five-district
[00:04:20] I would like to point out that one of plan where in the first phase, in six months, in five districts,
[00:04:24] we should strengthen the police and our other institutions, whether it is the judiciary
[00:04:28] or the administration,
[00:04:57] of population in
[00:05:00] that in this province we will strengthen our police
[00:05:03] and our other institutions, and
[00:05:07] our basic work there,
[00:05:10] those institutions will be able to do it with great courage. When you cannot
[00:05:14] protect it, when you cannot provide any facility
[00:05:18] there, when you tell a police officer to go there and your
[00:05:21] opponent has modern weapons and you
[00:05:25] have an old pistol, then how can you say that they should
[00:05:29] fight? Governor Sahib, the way
[00:05:31] the police and Commander Sahib are thinking, I
[00:05:35] think I will also appreciate the work they are doing.
[00:05:39] If this happens, I think it will be a turning point for the police.
[00:06:42] in the way they have given us
[00:06:46] a response in the last 24 hours. What was the method of response?
[00:06:49] They thought that we would block roads. We
[00:06:53] would set the whole province on fire. Their messages are in front of you;
[00:06:57] they are not hidden. That we will jam the whole province.
[00:07:00] You can see what the situation is.
[00:07:04] Ask independent people what the situation is. So I
[00:07:07] will appreciate the people of the entire KP and especially all our enforcement
[00:07:11] agencies. I will appreciate all of them for the way
[00:07:14] they handled the 24 hours. Alhamdulillah, this province is peaceful,
[00:07:18] its people are peaceful, and Insha'Allah, the
[00:07:21] terror
[00:07:26] is finally over.
[00:08:27] a meeting of the provincial apex committee held at the governor house under the chairmanship
[00:08:30] of interim governor Kariem Kundi and federal interior
[00:08:34] minister. Members of the advisory council along with senior military
[00:08:38] and the civilian officials attended the meeting. Faz Karim Kundi
[00:08:41] stated that eradicating Terrorism is our top priority as
[00:08:44] K-P people want peace and prosperity. He
[00:08:48] also said that global investments will follow when peace
[00:08:51] prevails. Interior minister Mosan Nakhvi stated that federal and
[00:08:55] the provincial governments are on the same page when it comes to
[00:08:57] peace. He said that PTI government failed to eradicate
[00:09:01] terrorism from the province and we need to adapt five district phase
[00:09:05] plan.
[00:09:07] He said that we are on the same page when it comes to peace. PTI government
[00:09:11] failed to eradicate terrorism. As well, and well, that's all
[00:09:14] for now, for further details, stay tuned to Pakistan TV.
[00:09:32] say, redeploying um these Patriot missile systems
[00:09:36] to certain areas - because um Saudi Arabia is
[00:09:39] absolutely vast um as your panelist did say.
[00:09:42] "and also just the volume of attacks
[00:09:46] has um been something which has surprised many, especially
[00:09:49] someone who lives here like um myself, but
[00:09:53] yes, we did hear from President Donald Trump, of course, no
[00:09:56] definitive answer from President Donald Trump, he
[00:10:00] said he might, he might not. So we haven't actually got
[00:10:03] a decision yet from the US. So we're still
[00:10:07] waiting on that decision. Of course, Marco Rubio to also
[00:10:11] condemned what..." happened at the international
[00:10:14] airport here. came out and said that we stand with Saudi. Saudi
[00:10:18] are allies, and we do know that, but it's going to be really
[00:10:21] interesting to see what the US does at the moment, and the reason for that is, of course,
[00:10:25] they're currently in negotiations with Iran. I know Iran has responded
[00:10:29] to the US response on the seven-day straight of hum's
[00:10:33] proposal, and they said that the US response is
[00:10:36] insufficient. So we know right
[00:10:40] response um from Iran. They've got that.
[00:10:44] It's probably not looking like that is going to lead to an agreement.
[00:10:48] And we must remember President Donald Trump right now is facing those midterm
[00:10:51] elections in November. He's got a choice to make.
[00:10:55] "Domestically, it's highly unpopular in the US, his
[00:10:59] war with Iran. And I think the coming days
[00:11:02] and weeks will tell us on what's going to happen, because the Mecca defense
[00:11:06] alliance, the plan is obviously to mobilize
[00:11:09] equipment as quickly as possible, and to get that into position.
[00:11:13] And the Dawn of Yemen attacks and the Dawn of Yemen
[00:11:16] operation apologies, which has been led by the Yemeni government and the
[00:11:20] Saudi-led coalition from the air could make major
[00:11:23] gains. So it's a wait-and-see holding pattern here. Every time I
[00:11:27] speak to analysts, they say that's the situation
[00:11:29] we're in, right? One quick last question
[00:11:33] from you, Mark: does diplomacy stand any chance when
[00:11:37] it comes to de-escalating the situation between the Houthis and the
[00:11:41] kingdom?
[00:11:45] I think your guest panelist is saying it
[00:11:49] exactly right, this is a stalemate at this point in time.
[00:11:52] It's also kind of a quagmire, in part because of the US
[00:11:56] elections. Iran is betting uh that they can win
[00:11:59] this war uh by uh weakening President Trump at the polls. And
[00:12:03] while he may be winking, that's not going to stop him as commander-in-chief uh from being
[00:12:07] able to order or having the capacity to order uh, you know, future
[00:12:11] strikes. I would say just quickly, in defense of the the Kingdom
[00:12:14] of Saudi Arabia, I would hope that the US would do more. Uh, this kind of
[00:12:18] attack is unacceptable. And I would also quickly point out one other aspect
[00:12:22] to all of this. Uh, it is creating interest in dynamic because Pakistan
[00:12:26] up to now has acted as mediator between the US and
[00:12:29] Iran. And for mediator, you need to be objective, but Pakistan is
[00:12:33] now taking the fight to the Houthis uh directly or
[00:12:36] indirectly in Yemen. Suddenly you're a participant, especially
[00:12:40] if, as I argue that it is Iran that's behind the
[00:12:43] Houthi attacks. So everything is kind of spinning out of
[00:12:46] control, even though for now up until the midterms, I suspect for the most
[00:12:50] part it'll be a
[00:13:16] to what is exactly the Indian
[00:13:19] authority, the led by Bharatiya Janata Party government of
[00:13:23] course, led by its prime minister.
[00:13:25] "Narendra Modi is doing with massive
[00:13:28] demonstrations and the protests which have
[00:13:31] erupted in a number of cities, most primarily when we talk about
[00:13:35] New Delhi and Mumbai. Especially when we talk
[00:13:38] about the government crackdown against the
[00:13:41] protest testers in Delhi. Delhi has
[00:13:44] been put under the extreme
[00:13:47] security restrictions. Now what does
[00:13:51] that actually signify when the people are protesting against an
[00:13:55] exercise by the Election Commission of India
[00:13:58] in connivance with the federal authorities, which is of course,
[00:14:02] as I have already mentioned, Bharatiya Janata Party led by its prime minister Narendra
[00:14:06] Modi, when it comes to revising
[00:14:09] intensively the electoral
[00:14:12] roles? As per a number of reports,
[00:14:15] 130 million people's
[00:14:18] names have been put off the
[00:14:21] electoral roles. What does that mean? What does
[00:14:25] that signify? And it is happening under the
[00:14:28] garb of the special intensive
[00:14:31] revision and the election commission. The opposition
[00:14:35] party say, especially when we talk about Indian National Congress, its leader Rahul
[00:14:38] Gandhi, he has been put under brief detention.
[00:14:42] Likewise, when we talk about this crackdown, there are
[00:14:46] reports that more than 1,000 people have been put under
[00:14:49] detention, there are barricades, and even
[00:14:53] journalists have been...
[00:14:55] arrested and their mobile phones and their devices have been
[00:14:59] confiscated by the police and law enforcement
[00:15:02] agencies over there. The opposition blames the Bharatiya Janata
[00:15:06] Party and the Election Commission of India going for this
[00:15:10] exercise in order to
[00:15:13] eliminate the names of the eligible voters, most particularly
[00:15:17] when we talk about the Muslim voters, in order to
[00:15:20] give a disproportionate advantage to Bharatiya
[00:15:24] Janata Party, and it's patterned in that particular regard
[00:15:27] in certain constituencies where there was no government of
[00:15:31] Bharatiya Janata Party before such revision of electoral roles.
[00:15:34] Bharatiya Janata Party came into power. After
[00:15:38] such revision, there are international concerns also being
[00:15:42] raised regarding this particular exercise on the part of the Election Commission of
[00:15:45] India and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led
[00:15:48] government. To understand what exactly is
[00:15:52] happening when we talk about that claim of being the largest democracy
[00:15:55] in the world, what does this show about the true
[00:15:59] nature of this so-called largest democracy in the
[00:16:02] world of
[00:16:20] million voters' names have been
[00:16:23] struck off the electoral roles in
[00:16:26] India under the so-called special
[00:16:30] intensive revision of the electoral
[00:16:32] roles. How do you look at this
[00:16:36] particular act on the part of the Election Commission of India
[00:16:39] firstly, and also when we talk
[00:16:42] about
[00:16:44] its connivance with the Bharatiya Party-led
[00:16:47] government over
[00:16:53] democracy is dying. It's been
[00:16:57] dying for the last 12 years ever since
[00:17:00] BJP under Narendra Modi took office.
[00:17:04] But 12 years of dying has brought India's democracy
[00:17:08] to see, to near fatal or near-death
[00:17:11] state, in which, as you
[00:17:14] just told your viewers, 130 million
[00:17:18] voters are being disenfranchised.
[00:17:22] For your Pakistani viewers, I'll put it into
[00:17:24] perspective that the total number of Pakistani voters in
[00:17:28] 2024 was 136 million. So
[00:17:32] essentially, a number of voters nearly
[00:17:36] equal to all of Pakistan's voters
[00:17:41] the roles. And this is very,
[00:17:44] I think, determinant and deliberate
[00:17:48] exercise to rig the vote, to
[00:17:51] finally disenfranchise
[00:17:53] minorities, particularly Muslims, and also
[00:17:57] to use this very selective engineering
[00:18:01] tool to disenfranchise the
[00:18:04] new Kakroot Janata Party, which is now
[00:18:07] protesting, and its leaders have been arrested.
[00:18:10] But I think this
[00:18:14] 130 million Indians being struck off the
[00:18:17] roles is essentially the culmination of a 12-
[00:18:20] year exercise in which
[00:18:24] the abolishing the special state of Kashmir,
[00:18:28] Article 370 of the Indian constitution back in
[00:18:31] 2019, and then afterwards the citizenship
[00:18:35] act, in which again the same exercise was
[00:18:38] tried, in which the citizenship itself, the
[00:18:41] government of India tried to take away again the principal victims
[00:18:45] of Muslims. And there is a systematic repression of
[00:18:48] minorities across India. What has
[00:18:52] changed? I think this is what in my view has brought India's
[00:18:55] democracy to near fatal level,
[00:18:59] that the animus of the
[00:19:02] government, the repression of the government has now
[00:19:05] spread from minorities and Muslims
[00:19:09] to all those who oppose it. So even
[00:19:12] Hindus or lower caste Hindus or educated
[00:19:16] students who are now opposing it, are facing the same kind of
[00:19:19] retribution that Muslims and minorities have
[00:19:23] faced in the last 12 years. In fact, Muslims in
[00:19:26] Gujarat faced it a genocidal level at
[00:19:30] the hands of Narendra Modi back in 2002. But
[00:19:32] essentially, this widening of repression from
[00:19:36] Muslims to..." "all those who oppose the regime, it
[00:19:40] has brought India's democracy, and I think it's very difficult to now call it
[00:19:44] democracy in which such widespread
[00:19:47] repression can take place. Exactly, we we see
[00:19:51] that widespread resentment among various strata of the
[00:19:54] society. From Muslims, it is expanding towards
[00:19:57] the other communities as well.
[00:20:01] When we specifically try to understand as to
[00:20:04] the international concern and India," which
[00:20:07] claims to be the largest democracy in the world, that there are international
[00:20:11] covenants when it comes to the universal declaration of human
[00:20:15] rights, the international covenant on civil and political
[00:20:18] rights. Also
[00:20:20] the entire world happens to be very sensitive when it comes
[00:20:24] to the right to vote. And such
[00:20:27] practices that ultimately lead to disenfranchisement of such
[00:20:31] huge chunk
[00:20:34] a certain country. Isn't
[00:20:37] the world what is exactly happening right now in
[00:20:41] India, and what should it be ideally? The world is sensitive to it,
[00:20:44] but because of India's size, particularly the size of its
[00:20:47] economy, and we should never have the growth
[00:20:51] rate that it keeps deceiving the world with, in which
[00:20:55] now there is convincing evidence that India has been
[00:20:59] overestimating its growth numbers
[00:21:01] for, again, for decades now, but particularly under
[00:21:05] Bharatiya Janata Party's rule, which I think
[00:21:08] now, again, to be perfectly candid, should be
[00:21:11] deemed a Hindutva government, in
[00:21:14] which it is trying to make sure
[00:21:18] that through its engineering and
[00:21:21] repression that it remains in power.
[00:21:24] And the world has taken notice
[00:21:27] of it, but India's size and India's economic growth
[00:21:30] stats still force the world to do business.
[00:21:34] But as we have seen that there is there is
[00:21:38] a method to
[00:21:40] this madness that Narendra Modi is pursuing.
[00:21:44] But this madness has brought India's, slowly
[00:21:47] bringing India's growth miracle
[00:21:51] to an end. A lot of, you know,
[00:21:54] multinationals and other investments are leaving
[00:21:57] India, and there is a flip side to this repression, is
[00:22:01] that India's, and this Hindutva
[00:22:04] government's entrenched
[00:22:06] hatred of Pakistan and its war-mongering against
[00:22:10] Pakistan has also made the world
[00:22:13] realize
[00:22:16] region which India keeps threatening with war and
[00:22:20] particularly with two nuclear-armed neighbors exist side by side.
[00:22:23] Is that a region which Narendra Modi can plunge
[00:22:27] into war any time, is not a good destination for investment. So
[00:22:31] that is, India is also suffering not only from the
[00:22:34] international sensitivity to repression and
[00:22:38] voter fraud, it is also now being paying the price for
[00:22:41] this war-mongering against Pakistan by, by
[00:22:45] economically directly and also, of
[00:22:48] course, or... overall, if you look at the larger
[00:22:51] picture, India's alliance with the
[00:22:54] United States is also in trouble, because
[00:22:58] India has not proven to be the kind of foot
[00:23:01] soldier that United States wanted against
[00:23:04] China. So many kind
[00:23:07] of, what you say, vulnerabilities
[00:23:11] brought upon by the
[00:23:12] Hindutva's systematic
[00:23:16] hatred and prejudice against minorities
[00:23:20] and those who oppose it has now brought India to a level in
[00:23:23] which the world is now, I think many, the
[00:23:26] Freedom House, downgraded India's democratic credentials in this
[00:23:30] year's report. So India's democracy is
[00:23:33] dying, its international stature is is being
[00:23:36] shattered, and now it's, I think it's going to be difficult
[00:23:40] two years until the next election for
[00:23:43] Modi. Right, Mr. Khan, there is another very
[00:23:46] interesting dimension. You already referred to briefly upon that also, the
[00:23:50] Kakroot Janata Party. Now there is
[00:23:53] a there is a pressure that is building upon the
[00:23:56] Bharatiya Janata Party-led government with these massive
[00:24:00] demonstrations in a number of major cities, including Mumbai. Delhi
[00:24:04] has been put under extreme security restriction. Also,
[00:24:07] now there is a brief history, the the Kakroot
[00:24:11] General Party was successfully able to get its
[00:24:14] demand met from the Bharatiya Janata Party when the
[00:24:18] education minister had to resign.
[00:24:21] Now we know for a fact, there is
[00:24:25] backing from the opposition, India National Congress Party
[00:24:28] as well. Their leader was briefly detained, though, as
[00:24:32] well. With the Kakroot Janada Party, other leading
[00:24:35] opposition parties, and also there is also a hint
[00:24:39] on the part of Sonam Wangchuk also, who played a pivotal
[00:24:42] role in the last movement when it came to the resignation of the
[00:24:46] education minister. This time around, the demand
[00:24:50] is the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner.
[00:24:54] Given that precedence, do you think there would be pressure
[00:24:57] amply mounted on Bharatiya Janata Party that they they once
[00:25:01] again would give in or concede to this new demand of this
[00:25:05] massive protest movement?
[00:25:10] the symptoms of a prejudice-
[00:25:14] based government is that it
[00:25:16] cannot bear independent institutions. So
[00:25:20] for many decades, now more than two decades, India's
[00:25:24] Election Commission was sort of the poster child of India's
[00:25:28] democracy, in which it was seen as a credible institution that,
[00:25:32] despite all the corruption and mismanagement
[00:25:35] and embezzlement that happened in India, at
[00:25:39] least the Indian Election Commission was a credible
[00:25:42] institution that ran relatively fair elections. Now that
[00:25:45] is no longer true. So, similarly, the
[00:25:49] another... institution which
[00:25:52] became the cause of the Kakroot Janata Party to come into being
[00:25:56] was the college entrance system in which the examination system
[00:25:59] was exposed as rigged." And
[00:26:03] so, so many hundred thousand young people who wanted to
[00:26:07] go into the Indian Civil Service realized that
[00:26:11] this again, another institution that they believed
[00:26:14] in was rigged and corrupt. And therefore, they
[00:26:18] protested against it. It's very interesting that the handful of young people who
[00:26:21] have had no political experience, most of them are
[00:26:24] under the age of 32, have have organized
[00:26:27] themselves into this this protest. But
[00:26:31] again, this protest, which was
[00:26:34] first against the education minister, now they are protesting as election
[00:26:38] commission. I It's too early to say whether the
[00:26:42] election commissioner would resign, but it's very clear that
[00:26:45] one major aspect of this Hindutva regime for the last 12
[00:26:49] years has been the slow decay
[00:26:53] of Indian institutions, which is
[00:26:55] now exposed for all the world to
[00:27:42] Pakistan's uh geography is very strategic, very
[00:27:46] important. It connects multiple regions. We are
[00:27:49] a higher platform, a higher pedestal, this new
[00:27:52] phase in which we are now in a mutual defense
[00:27:56] agreement brings together two of the Muslim
[00:27:59] world's strongest militaries and military
[00:28:03] capabilities, which are Pakistan and Turkey. Gaza
[00:28:07] situation is even more perturbing,
[00:28:10] and it doesn't seem that, I mean, the the current
[00:28:14] sort of Israeli actions there, I mean, they are not
[00:28:18] willing to relinquish sort of the territory that they have
[00:28:22] occupied. If President Trump is able to get this kind of disarmament to take
[00:28:25] place in in in in Gaza, this would
[00:28:29] be a huge victory for him, but it's a matter of bringing bringing the
[00:28:33] Israeli Israeli particularly to the table who's already
[00:28:36] rejected this kind of US back road map. The fact that the Israeli
[00:28:40] military and government and militia and illegal
[00:28:42] settlers are kind of collaborating to take away
[00:28:46] these lands and occupy them and settle them with
[00:28:50] Israelis. These deployments are very demanding, both on the
[00:28:52] equipment and on the crew. There
[00:28:55] are roughly 4,800 personnel
[00:28:59] aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln if you include the ship's crew and the air
[00:29:03] wing. Um, and they have been at sea now for uh
[00:29:07] nine months continuously. Iran tends to play the game,
[00:29:10] what we say, they continue the dance. The United States wants Iran to
[00:29:14] come to the table, and they're making concessions to get Iran to come to the table. And
[00:29:17] Iran's making demands for
[00:30:02] additional concessions to get to the table. You're watching Pakistan TV, this is Muhammad Abdullah Dar. Let's see the top stories.
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[00:30:23] committed to the complete elimination of terrorism and demands of Afghan Taliban
[00:30:27] regime to stop all support to terrorists. Addressing a counter
[00:30:30] terrorism conference, Dar stressed that attacks originating from the Afghan
[00:30:34] soil must end and the world must acknowledge Pakistan's
[00:30:38] sacrifices.
[00:30:44] Information Minister Attar says emergency was imposed in Khabar.
[00:30:47] Pakhtunkhwa under valid constitutional clauses as there was a
[00:30:50] breakdown of governance and terrorists were destroying people's
[00:30:53] livelihoods.
[00:30:58] KP governor established.