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[00:00:11] In Hangu district, security forces clashed with militants,
[00:00:13] have started being put up, you have sent resulting in a firefight. Eight terrorists were killed. Captain
[00:00:17] Abuzar Farooq and Lieutenant Shiraz Babar were among the martyrs. Security forces
[00:00:20] are determined to completely eliminate terrorism
[00:00:24] under "Operation Azm-e-Istehkam".
[00:00:36] President Asif Ali Zardari and the Prime Minister paid tribute to the security forces
[00:00:40] for eliminating eight terrorists in Hangu district. The President
[00:00:43] and Prime Minister expressed their heartfelt condolences to the families of the martyrs.
[00:00:47] The sacrifices of the security forces and law enforcement agencies will
[00:00:50] not be in vain.
[00:00:56] The 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly.
[00:01:30] that they ensure that there is no interference in this regard. No violent group
[00:01:33] will come to Islamabad. The administration,
[00:01:37] police, Interior Minister, and the entire government are absolutely
[00:01:40] clear.
[00:01:43] No violent group will be allowed
[00:01:46] is to enter Islamabad. The administration will ensure
[00:01:49] compliance with court orders. The people of Jamaat-e-Islami are peaceful and sensible.
[00:01:53] This was stated by Minister for Information
[00:01:55] and Broadcasting.
[00:02:01] Due to regional tensions, oil prices are continuously rising. In the current
[00:02:04] situation, the Prime Minister has launched a special relief program for the middle
[00:02:08] and poor classes. This special scheme is exclusively for the common man.
[00:02:12] So far, 2.2 million people have registered under the scheme. Minister
[00:02:15] of Information, Atta
[00:02:20] continues from stability to economic growth.
[00:02:23] Foreign exchange reserves are reaching a record high
[00:02:27] in the country's history. Unfortunately, the situation in the Middle East
[00:02:30] is being most affected. Enemy forces are behind the terrorism
[00:02:34] in the country. Disruption in economic activities is causing billions
[00:02:38] of rupees in losses. Federal Minister
[00:02:41] of Finance, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb,
[00:02:42] in Islamabad.
[00:02:47] Implementation of the Prime Minister's special petrol relief scheme is underway,
[00:02:51] including motorcycles, rickshaws, and Qingqi rickshaws older than 20 years.
[00:02:54] All motorcycles, rickshaws, and Qingqi rickshaws registered after January 1,
[00:02:58] 2006, are included in the relief scheme.
[00:03:17] Mohsin Naqvi himself and MPAs there, and they are under pressure
[00:03:30] to spread chaos and destruction. Junaid Dukhbar's statement reflects the intention to spread chaos
[00:03:34] and destruction. There is a fear of violence and bloodshed under the guise
[00:03:37] of protest. We will not allow roads to be blocked or public
[00:03:40] life to be affected. This was the response of Minister of Information and Broadcasting
[00:03:44] Attaullah Tarar to Junaid's provocative
[00:03:45] statement.
[00:03:50] and sheltered Afghans for five generations, sharing our limited resources with them.
[00:03:54] 70 to 80% of the terrorists who attack our mosques, schools,
[00:03:57] markets, and army are Afghans.
[00:04:33] to it.
[00:05:00] Approximately, we will incur a loss of
[00:05:02] 120 billion rupees on a daily
[00:05:05] basis.
[00:05:08] We are not those who spread chaos. We are not those who take the law into our own hands.
[00:06:13] On the other hand, sources from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)
[00:06:16] have claimed that Aleema Khan has also been
[00:06:19] arrested under the 3MPO and transferred to jail.
[00:06:23] Where is the country's politics headed?
[00:06:27] And the most important question is whether the opposition
[00:06:30] will achieve its objectives through long marches and protests. These
[00:06:34] are some important questions that we will try to review in our program today
[00:06:38] and present to our guests. We have senior journalist Zaheer Shah
[00:06:41] Siraji with us.
[00:08:04] If you look at it, it clearly states
[00:08:07] that you will not cause road disruptions, you will not
[00:08:10] create law and order issues, you will not go towards traffic diversions,
[00:08:14] and along with that, the directives have been issued to the provincial
[00:08:18] government by the Chief Secretary in another order, which
[00:08:21] see, at this time, the Tehreek-e-Insaf's march will mostly rely on
[00:08:24] Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There are its MNA's
[00:08:28] to bring 5,000 people each, so we will gather 1 million people
[00:08:31] and march. First, I will come
[00:08:35] to the Jamaat-e-Islami's march. Has the court really issued
[00:08:38] such a directive regarding this march as well?
[00:10:25] the law and order situation in the country, the other anarchy within
[00:10:28] the country, look at your borders, look at your financial situation,
[00:10:32] look at the factories. Today, if Islamabad is closed and containers
[00:10:38] a message that there will be no business for the entire week
[00:10:41] in the federal capital. Estimate the 120
[00:10:45] billion dollar loss.
[00:10:51] per day. You can see the factory losses.
[00:11:25] Coming back to my original question, and I'm also bringing it to Mr. Paracha.
[00:11:29] Mr. Paracha, you must have seen Barrister Gohar's tweet,
[00:11:32] in which it is being said that regarding the possible
[00:11:35] arrest of Ms. Aleema Khan, he said that Ms. Naureen Niazi
[00:11:39] told him that she has been arrested.
[00:11:43] At a time when the government is saying
[00:11:47] that we have no threat from them, then arresting
[00:11:50] her under 3MPO, the question I was asking
[00:11:54] Mr. Shirazi is, don't you think that the government itself
[00:11:57] is giving them the impetus that they desperately need for this march,
[00:12:01] desperately need? The government itself is providing the opportunity to become
[00:12:05] a political martyr, saying, "Look, our women are being picked up at this time."
[00:12:09] And if there is no threat from us,
[00:12:21] there was no threat, then there wouldn't be these containers.
[00:12:25] If there was no threat, then there wouldn't be containers
[00:12:28] in the city. You are in Islamabad right now. Every square
[00:12:32] in Islamabad, every main road, has containers
[00:12:35] standing on it. But whether
[00:12:39] three marches are coming, or two, or one march, it's just
[00:12:42] one march, and that's the PTI march. And the Islamabad
[00:12:46] High Court's
[00:12:48] decision came in that context,
[00:12:52] didn't it? Because of the PTI's march. Just the Chief Minister
[00:12:55] of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa also announced
[00:12:59] that he would come on the 27th. The meeting that took place yesterday
[00:13:03] with the Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Ain Pakistan people. Yes. So the
[00:13:06] reports that came from there through sources about that meeting,
[00:13:10] and then in that, the Tahafuz-e-Ain Pakistan
[00:13:13] people also asked why they weren't consulted when they made the announcement.
[00:13:17] No plan has even come out yet as to what the plan
[00:13:20] is. For example, will they come and sit there? How many days
[00:13:24] will they sit? Will they hold a rally and leave? No such
[00:13:28] announcement has been made. However, after the Islamabad High
[00:13:31] Court's decision, the government has clearly
[00:13:35] given its plan of action. The government has said.
[00:13:38] And Interior Minister
[00:13:42] said in a press conference that the forces have been ordered
[00:13:46] to stop them at all costs. Yes. These arrests
[00:13:49] are also a link in the same chain.
[00:13:52] So they also have to be stopped. they don't give up because
[00:14:55] you know, all of us know that at this time, it's a do-or-die
[00:14:58] situation for Sohail Afridi. He has to come. He has to come to prove
[00:15:02] himself. He was given this position because he was a champion
[00:15:06] of sorts. If he comes out
[00:15:08] and reaches Islamabad, do you think a constitutional
[00:15:12] crisis might also be in the offing? The Governor,
[00:15:16] who we are talking about today, see, Dr. Maryam, first of all,
[00:15:19] what they wanted to achieve,
[00:15:23] you helped them achieve whatever they wanted to achieve
[00:15:27] by fully supporting them. done.
[00:15:30] You put up containers
[00:15:34] in Punjab. they are being arrested. But there's
[00:20:07] another angle
[00:20:10] That is, after the Islamabad High Court's order,
[00:20:14] the Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi,
[00:20:17] said that they would stop them at all costs and told
[00:20:21] the forces. So then it's not like you let
[00:20:24] their leadership come to 26 Number, to Faizabad,
[00:20:28] to T-Chowk, Rawat, and then you say
[00:20:32] that we will stop them here. Then wherever someone is caught,
[00:20:36] they will be stopped right there, as they say. Both sides'
[00:20:39] perspectives are important in their own place.
[00:20:43] For example, PTI says that protesting under
[00:20:47] the constitution is our right, and the government
[00:20:50] should itself make arrangements for peaceful protests.
[00:20:53] On the other hand, the government says that their
[00:20:57] past record has not been peaceful at all.
[00:21:00] Whenever PTI came to protest, there was
[00:21:04] violence, and bloodshed.
[00:21:06] And after that, incidents also happened
[00:21:10] at 26 Number, or at D-Chowk, which were very unfortunate
[00:21:13] incidents. So the question arises, it is very important
[00:21:17] for us to see this. I
[00:21:20] was saying earlier, maybe my voice was not reaching properly, that until
[00:21:24] now, PTI has not shown its plan,
[00:21:27] its strategy, its plan,
[00:21:31] that they will come and sit in Islamabad,
[00:21:35] hold a sit-in, hold a rally. And if
[00:21:38] they hold a sit-in, how many days will it be for? Where will they sit?
[00:21:42] The second thing is that during the PDM era, a law
[00:21:45] was made regarding political gatherings in Islamabad.
[00:21:49] That any political party that wants to hold
[00:21:53] a gathering here should first sit with the local administration,
[00:21:56] negotiate, and sit at the allocated
[00:22:00] place for as many days as they want
[00:22:03] to sit. But
[00:22:06] when their protest came, a place was
[00:22:10] allocated in H-8 and H-9, where Maulana
[00:22:13] Fazlur Rehman used to sit. He also had thousands of people
[00:22:17] with him. But exactly according to the agreement,
[00:22:20] he sat there, and from there, when Pervez Elahi said that
[00:22:24] after some give and take, they sent them back by making
[00:22:28] promises. But when PTI made an agreement,
[00:22:32] they still said that they would reach D-Chowk. Now the problem with D-Chowk
[00:22:36] that there is a diplomatic enclave
[00:22:40] here, with more than a hundred embassies. God
[00:22:43] forbid, if some unruly
[00:22:46] element goes in that direction, then what?
[00:22:58] where the protesters and these long marchers have to be stopped and kept somewhere. I believe
[00:23:02] that the responsibility of diplomats,
[00:23:05] whether it's diplomatic staff or other vital installations
[00:23:09] like the Foreign Office, Supreme Court, Prime Minister's Secretariat
[00:23:12] is greater, because in the 2014 sit-ins,
[00:23:15] judges were unable to enter the Supreme Court from the front
[00:23:19] gate.
[00:23:26] When you have these examples, then you definitely have to see.
[00:23:29] And then the statements that came today that we will
[00:23:33] make Islamabad Somnath, what does that
[00:23:36] mean? I didn't understand that statement. When they say
[00:23:40] that we will make it Somnath,
[00:23:50] that used to say that we will be buried. We have come with shrouds. You know,
[00:23:54] last time also there was talk of shrouds and burials. Then after that, it went from
[00:23:57] 2 million to 4 million. Then it was said that it was rhetorical enthusiasm.
[00:24:00] Look, God
[00:24:04] forbid, if even one life is lost, God forbid,
[00:24:07] whether it's a PTI worker or a Ranger's
[00:24:11] soldier. Yes, for whatever reason, I am not
[00:24:15] blaming anyone, because if some things come
[00:24:19] to light, then we will know. For example, PTI itself
[00:24:22] claims that 14 of our people were martyred. Who
[00:24:25] were they? They were Pakistani citizens, weren't they? They were someone's
[00:24:29] children, they were someone's siblings, they would be someone's
[00:24:33] parents. I am saying
[00:24:35] that if even one life is lost, if even one life
[00:24:39] is lost, an innocent political worker comes, what happened
[00:24:42] to him? Or the Rangers' soldiers were martyred at 26 Number
[00:24:46] for some reason, they are gone. Don't take
[00:24:48] these statements seriously. Look at the experiences,
[00:24:51] look at the precedents, look at the examples,
[00:24:55] did lives go in the incidents that happened or not?
[00:24:59] That is, the same graves that were dug in the 2014
[00:25:02] sit-ins, the shrouds that were kept, the night
[00:25:06] between August 30 and 31, four
[00:25:10] or five people died that night, didn't they? Whether they fell
[00:25:13] into a ditch, whether it was due to violence, I don't know, I'm not
[00:25:17] taking anyone's side. For me, it's important.
[00:26:32] they will bring revolution and they are very enthusiastic, they are very brave,
[00:26:36] they are single-minded. So today, you see, they talked
[00:26:39] about Somnath, that if our people are shot,
[00:26:43] we will not run away with the bodies, we will bring more people.
[00:26:47] If a bullet is fired, we will respond to a bullet with a bullet. You
[00:26:50] are giving these speeches on stage to the children of the poor.
[00:26:54] But it is worth thinking about how many people will come with you. Doctor
[00:26:58] Sahab, another question is, does Sohail Afridi Sahab believe
[00:27:01] at this time that the entire party is behind him, the young leader
[00:27:05] or the young voter of Tehreek-e-Insaf?
[00:27:08] At this time, you see that the leadership of Tehreek-e-Insaf
[00:27:12] is with its youth.
[00:27:16] who are ruling at this time, whether it is Shafiq Jan,
[00:27:20] whether it is Meena Khan, whether it is your Sohail Afridi,
[00:27:24] then you understand that you have sidelined the first-tier leadership, whether it was Asad Qaiser
[00:27:27] and his influence, or whether it was Ali Amin Gandapur. Now you also see
[00:27:31] within the province that 20
[00:29:03] and talks are also being held. But my personal opinion is that PTI's
[00:29:06] protest will go up to the border of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
[00:29:10] whether it goes from the Swabi side or from the Khushalgarh side.
[00:29:13] You will hold sit-ins there, block roads. Of course, you will try
[00:29:17] to give a message to the people that we are respecting
[00:29:21] the court's order and we hope from the courts
[00:29:24] that they will give us relief. So I also, as
[00:29:27] the backchannel diplomacy is happening right now,
[00:29:30] Mohsin Naqvi is engaged.
[00:29:35] He can endorse this more, that he met Barrister Gohar and it was also discussed that a meeting with Imran Khan should be arranged. If
[00:29:38] that happens, I think it's not bad. You should diffuse
[00:29:42] this situation. If taking him to the hospital improves
[00:29:46] the matter, the political
[00:29:49] polarization environment here, such a heated environment,
[00:29:52] if it calms down, then it's better, because look, on the other hand, look at the situation
[00:29:56] in Balochistan, at this time, in both
[00:29:59] of your provinces, you cannot do it.