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00:00:00rather it is threatening the entire
00:00:02me world or it well taken that
00:00:05multifactorial strategy is required to counter
00:00:09terrorism in
00:00:11of Pakistan, especially in Balochistan and in KP. Moving forward towards
00:00:15you Khalid, according to the report of Pakistan institute of conflict
00:00:18studies, it reports that attacks in Balochistan
00:00:22increased from 83 in July to 89 in August. What
00:00:26do you think that what factors are driving these attacks? to
00:00:30be increasing day by day and we have seen in the last month these attacks
00:00:34were increased from 83 to
00:00:3689. Anu, I believe
00:00:40of that this is a time
00:00:41a period, especially in last three four months, Pakistan has contributed
00:00:44hugely in bringing the peace to the region, especially
00:00:47in a war between America and Iran, so we
00:00:51found new respect in the committee of nation, we
00:00:54of we are elevated from the influence point of view, because this influence does
00:00:58not come very easily ' let me share with your viewers and you will
00:01:02all agree that you can buy the weapons, you can buy the
00:01:05equipment, you can buy hardware, you can buy any product from the
00:01:09world, what you cannot buy is the image and the perception that you
00:01:13have in the minds and hearts
00:01:15of the people, so we have earned a new influence in the minds
00:01:19of the people, the world rates us that we are
00:01:21of a peace loving country, not only that we proved this year, but last
00:01:25year june, may june 25 what happened
00:01:28was the world saw and realize that in that month when we retaliated
00:01:32against India and obviously proved that we have the
00:01:36capability to not to become obviously victim of any
00:01:39aggression, so the world has realized that we are a peaceling country,
00:01:43however we will take any challenge if thrusted upon us, and
00:01:47then within this one year we have contributed hugely, so as we
00:01:51become more relevant in the eyes
00:01:52of the world nations, this has not gone well with our
00:01:56enemies obviously, that is why they want to instigate something, and
00:02:00sp specially and particularly where they do
00:02:04not have to face the embarrassment like they faced in May
00:02:062025, here they have to just fund some terrorists, they
00:02:10have to sponsor, they give them some leverages and benefits and incentives, so
00:02:14they carry out the attacks, so they do not are get any midline,
00:02:18obviously comments from President Trump every time President Trump was
00:02:22reminding them
00:02:23of of the shooting down
00:02:24of the aeroplane, so I think they founded
00:02:26a refuge on this, and that is probably increase.
00:02:31the frequency
00:02:31of these, because our enemies are telling the world
00:02:35that here is a country which is victim of obviously or involved
00:02:39in terrorism, so obviously not safe for tourism, not safe for
00:02:43investment, not safe for bilateral trades and everything, so I think they want
00:02:47to mel want to create an degree of uneasiness
00:02:51amongst the friendly countries that they should shy away from
00:02:54coming and committing for Pakistan's trade or having huge
00:02:57infrastructure or bilateral trade. I think that that has been the major reason
00:03:01according to me. All right, that's that's a very important point. Moving forward towards you,
00:03:05Zahir Shah Sheraz, you have mentioned about a comprehensive approach, a
00:03:09comprehensive approach that includes the governance, that includes the intelligence
00:03:13sharing, but we have discussed about the
00:03:15inter
00:03:17you know department, inter country intelligence sharing,
00:03:21when it comes to the intra intelligence sharing, what do you think
00:03:25that when it comes to the federal intelligence agencies
00:03:28of the provincial agencies, how can the... federal intelligence agencies
00:03:31or the provincial police or the counter terrorism departments of respective
00:03:35provinces improve the information sharing so that threats can be
00:03:39identified before the militants could reach
00:03:42to sensitive you know installations or the sensitive points
00:03:46or the gatherings
00:03:47of the offices or the you know offices of armed
00:03:51personnels such as police lines or or FC
00:03:55headquarters or the other important
00:03:56areas. we have have very
00:04:00organized document and that is in the form of national action plan, so we
00:04:04have to realize that one part, yes the kinetic operation is going
00:04:08on, the law enforcement agencies are trying having
00:04:12intelligence based operation, they are having full fledge operations in especially in the
00:04:15peripheries and on the outskirts
00:04:18of the the major you know urban towns, but
00:04:22again coming again toward the issue of governance that kinetic
00:04:26operation has gained the most
00:04:29of the land from the terrorist. they have been whipped out, they have been expelled from those
00:04:32areas, but now what about the governance issues? i think we are lacking
00:04:36that even in Balochistan, even in the khibar and the tribal areas,
00:04:40the governance issues are very serious, we cannot
00:04:43of expand and extend those administrative measures
00:04:45in the form of strengthening the CTD, in the form of strengthening the
00:04:49intelligence network, especially in the bordering town, so that is the reason these militants
00:04:53are now penetrating, so what we have to do is we have to go full
00:04:56of fledge, implementation
00:04:57of the revised national action plan is the main thing. "all those people,
00:05:01locals, all those political parties, groups
00:05:04and the supporters which are in the one way or the other,
00:05:08sympathizing, patronizing or supporting these terrist, they have to be taken to the
00:05:11tosk." so this is very important as far as you
00:05:15know
00:05:16the the intelligence sharing between pakist pakistani national
00:05:20security forces and intelligence agencies are concern, i think they are on one
00:05:24page, we have apex committee meeting where all these things are discussed, we have
00:05:27national peace committee meetings which are which is attended by all the
00:05:31chief executives and prime minister as well as the intelligence
00:05:35and other chiefs, so it means there is a coordination
00:05:39going on, but why we are lagging?
00:05:42"you a complete and full fledge control over such like incident, the reason
00:05:46is this radicalized area which was intentionally
00:05:50radicalized during the Afghan war, we haven't done much for the
00:05:54de-radicalization of this this region, we had been waiting for the international
00:05:57community of this region, we have seen that and we have been witnessing
00:06:01Pakistan is trying to best to counter this terrorism that is
00:06:05originating from the border and intelligence based operations have been carried out to
00:06:09discuss about that, we were joined by Zahir Shah Sherazi sah was in Afghan affairs" expert thank
00:06:13you so much for joining in views at seven and sharing your views with
00:06:16us. moving forward towards you chithi sab, considering the fact that we have
00:06:20mentioned that Pakistan is asking them to come to talking table again and
00:06:23again. pakistan has continued its
00:06:27diplomatic and humanitarian engagement with Afghanistan despite its security
00:06:30concerns. how can Islam about maintain that engagement while demanding
00:06:34meaurable, verifiable counter terrorism
00:06:38strategy by Afghan Taliban
00:06:40regime. Manu, I think a
00:06:44direct interaction and the goodwill gestures about the trade and other
00:06:48support did not work in the past, especially in the recent past, they've not
00:06:52worked, so I think we need to use the international influence to
00:06:56sort out the issue, the fact remains that America negotiated with
00:06:59Talibans almost for 10 years in Doha, and when this Doha
00:07:03agreement was signed, these Talibans assured
00:07:07Americans that this will be new Afghanistan, so
00:07:11does the world agree that? It's it's a new Afghanistan, no, the
00:07:15brutalities are the same, the terror is being exported, obviously, the it's being
00:07:18weaponized, the it's terror is available on
00:07:22rent, so this is not a new Afghanistan and Americans
00:07:25and other countries who are obviously friendly towards, they still have lot of
00:07:29influence on these Taliban, so I think it should be true wrong engagement, one
00:07:33is that you do engage them bilaterally and obviously try to create a
00:07:37goodwill gesture and obviously try to make them realize the past relations that
00:07:41we have had with the... Istan for last at least four or five
00:07:44decades since the Soviet Union took over and whatever we contributed
00:07:48to obviously get them liberated so they need to be refresh that and top of
00:07:52that as I said the super powers where we have now
00:07:56much better influence as compared to what we had about 15 16 months
00:08:00back so I think we need to make them realize that we have been targeted and
00:08:03we are facing the innocent brutalities and casualities because of
00:08:07this terror attack and those countries which have lot of
00:08:10incentives or to off. "I think they can play a very
00:08:14critical role because obviously, as I said, they cannot survive and
00:08:18sustain their life, stand alone, obviously the world has to or should come
00:08:22forward now, and Pakistan should continue press on the diplomatic
00:08:25effort more aggressively, because the world has started to listen to us and started to
00:08:29realize our contribution, so I think that mileage or
00:08:33dividend must be passed to the common people of KPK and Baluchistan who are
00:08:37suffering the most. All right, so Pakistan said that it would
00:08:41respond to the terrorist. you know emerging from
00:08:45Afghanistan in self defense and in accordance with international law, what diplomatic
00:08:48mechanism can be pursued alongside the security masers
00:08:52to address these threats as well, how can pakistan
00:08:55respond in accordance to the international law in this
00:08:59condition? you see maror, international law or
00:09:03united nations regulations and law permits us that we are
00:09:07entitlement for defense of our homeland if there is an aggression from
00:09:11outside, so there is no confusion their regression has been sponsored and
00:09:14triggered from outside and from Afghanistan obviously, so we are
00:09:18legitimate from and from the
00:09:22victim point of view, we can obviously and we should hit back. Let
00:09:26me also assure and I've said it many times in your program that we, the armed
00:09:29forces, especially Pakistan arm forces and law enforcement agencies
00:09:33have been very very cautious, we have not gone for dager response,
00:09:37we've not put the trigger just on unload and unload just on
00:09:41the hype of it. "we've been very responsible, although we have
00:09:45huge capability, alhamdulillah to take on many more targets, well deep
00:09:49into Afghanistan and with much more intensity and atrocity, but we've held
00:09:52back because we want to play mature, number one, number two, we don't
00:09:56want atrocities or brutalities and obviously been inflicted on the
00:10:00civilians populations and number three, historical record says that
00:10:04we've enjoyed great relations with Afghanistan, so we don't want obviously those
00:10:07old four five decades of relationship to be spoiled like just like this, so
00:10:11I would suggest..." that the limited offense, a prohibitive cost
00:10:15is to be should be continued to be imposed, number one, and top
00:10:19of that, you said the diplomatic ties, not only at bilateral level, but
00:10:23international level and especially in... involving China, Russia, Saudi
00:10:27Arab, UAE, Qatar and those countries who have the
00:10:30element of influence hugely present on Taliban, they should be
00:10:34engaged and obviously made aware the kind of suffering the Pakistan has gone
00:10:38through, especially even after being a great contributor
00:10:42to the peace in the region in the form of Iran and American war.
00:10:46Well taken, you have raised such valid concerns, thank you so much for joining in
00:10:50views at seven and sharing your insight with us regarding the intelligence based
00:10:54operations and use
00:10:55of Afghan soil against Pakistan we were air commador retired Mr. Khalid Chishti is
00:10:59defense and security analyst, a former fighter pilot and the senior officer
00:11:03of Pakistan Air Force. So now moving forward towards another issue that is not regional
00:11:06issue, that is not an issue of Pakistan, rather it is a
00:11:10global issue and world collectively and separately trying
00:11:13to navigate different aspects to counter this issue that is
00:11:17the climate change issue that is is the issue related to climate change,
00:11:21climate governance, the countries across the global are setting up their... standards and
00:11:25other countries in the developing world are trying to meet those standards and
00:11:29now Pakistan has improved its position in the
00:11:332026 environmental performance index moving from you
00:11:37know it moved 22 places up from
00:11:40179th in 2024 to 157th among
00:11:44177 countries the world. Pakistan's overall EPI
00:11:48score stands at 29 compared with
00:11:52you know India that is 22. the index produced
00:11:56by the university says that countries across 47
00:12:00indicators and the 12 environmental categories and at
00:12:04the same time we talk about this report, the environmental performance
00:12:07index, the report highlights serious challenges for
00:12:11Pakistan as well, particularly in air quality and the environmental
00:12:15health and Pakistan ranks 176th in air
00:12:18quality while its overall environmental health ranking is
00:12:22175th, however however the picture right now is not
00:12:26uniformly negative for Pakistan as Pakistan ranks 14th
00:12:29globally on the EPI's forests indicator and
00:12:3329th on the nitrogen dioxide expo year as
00:12:37well so to discuss about that to have another or
00:12:41decoding this you know technical or critical term when it comes
00:12:44to the this index or the ranking of Pakistan and the improvement
00:12:48of 22 scales up we are joined by Miss
00:12:52Mariam Shabir Abbasi she is a environmental expert. has joined us from
00:12:56USA. Miss Mariam, welcome to program views at seven as Pakistan has
00:12:59climbed 22 places in the EPI, what
00:13:03specific policies or the interventions contributed to its
00:13:07improvement and how much of this progress can be considered
00:13:11sustainable in the given time frame or the given
00:13:14situation where we have seen the terrorist attacks, we have
00:13:18seen the situation
00:13:19in the middle east that is always always
00:13:22you know analyzed in a way of diplomatic issue that is always analyzed
00:13:25in a way of military confrontation, but not an
00:13:29environmental issue, so how sustainable
00:13:33is this, the progress made by Pakistan? well, if
00:13:37you look at environmental performance index
00:13:40report, you would see that Pakistan has
00:13:43you know made progress in two major broad categories, I would
00:13:47say, the first one is of course environmental health and the second one
00:13:51is the ecosystem vitality, the and under like their...
00:13:55three broad categories, third is climate change where Pakistan hasn't
00:13:58performed lot and I would come to that why that has not
00:14:02happened, but where Pakistan has made progress in two broad
00:14:06categories when I was mentioning about environmental health is that you know when it comes to
00:14:10drinking water or sanitation services
00:14:13or I would say even particular matter
00:14:162.5 nitrogen oxide, I
00:14:20don't think so I will make too technical by using these terms for the viewers,
00:14:24but you... lots of categories for example ecosystem vitality
00:14:28as well where Pakistan has done better when it comes to
00:14:31a-forestation and I would like to mention that when we are talking about
00:14:35air forestation is not the urban planning
00:14:38thing in that because it's it's the overall forest cover we are talking
00:14:42about because the in urban planning the the
00:14:46forest cover removal is a big big issue still for Pakistan but there
00:14:50were overall some data constraints for this report
00:14:54as well. they relied on AI models as
00:14:57well, they the teams relied on of course the government data as
00:15:01well and also GIS data as well, so there were
00:15:05some data challenges as well, but when we look at such
00:15:09reports Mahnur, we need to be very very cautious,
00:15:12because they are like comparing global north and global south and
00:15:16that's in my opinion is not fair
00:15:20because the global north is contributing lot to their missions
00:15:24and they... import, they export, sorry, their
00:15:28emissions by putting some markets or some waste
00:15:31dumping in Asian countries, including Pakistan as well, so
00:15:35it's there are lots of lots of factors and the one factor which you
00:15:39mentioned before asking a question was also the regional situation
00:15:42where you know the war is contributing lot to the
00:15:46global emissions and also for Pakistan as well when it comes to air quality
00:15:50particularly where we haven't performed better is just not the domestic
00:15:54factors but also regional factors as well look at the Yemen you
00:15:58know it's been decades that the hutis are like
00:16:01involved in many and there are lots of other
00:16:05other actors too involved in Yeman. say, but also
00:16:08Afghanistan, with India, now with
00:16:11Saudis and
00:16:13ho these conditions, you these all contribute towards emissions and Pakistan
00:16:17strategically where it lies, it has like air quality, bad air
00:16:21quality and emissions problem and also graciting problem at the same time because of
00:16:25global emissions, so it's it's kind of complex and even
00:16:29despite having all these challenges Pakistan has outperformed in
00:16:3222 broad categories which is very very impressive you
00:16:36despite having political leadership
00:16:40problems because of 18th amendment and of course the financial
00:16:43issues as well because of climate adaptation
00:16:47fund, climate green fund or loss and damage fund,
00:16:50you know there is not much money for Pakistan to perform better, but even
00:16:54then for example I would say particularly
00:16:58with air quality some some segments perform
00:17:01better, not particular 2.5 but the
00:17:04other pollutants, I would say. "and that's
00:17:08because particularly in Punjab the current
00:17:11administration and current government has taken a lot of positive steps, I
00:17:15would say, it's not perfect at this stage, but it's a lot, they have done a
00:17:19lot better than previous governments, I would say, and we have seen the
00:17:23reduction of smog in in just few months and months and it
00:17:26is very important at the provincial level or at the district level or
00:17:30at the national level
00:17:31as well to make such strategies that are environmental friendly
00:17:35that are environmental sustainable as well to..." discuss about that, we are joined
00:17:39by Dr. Bakht Bilal Khan, he is head of climate action weather wale,
00:17:42Dr. Bacht, welcome to program views at7, considering the current situation which we are
00:17:46celebrating that Pakistan is actually moving 22 scale up,
00:17:50Pakistan's overall score is 29, while
00:17:53India's is 22. What does this comparison tell us about
00:17:57the environmental policies being implemented on both the sides the
00:18:01border and how the policy of one country is one way or the other is
00:18:05impacting the other country, because when it comes to to climate challenges and when it
00:18:08comes to climate action,
00:18:10it is borderless,
00:18:11it is, it goes beyond borders, so how do you look at
00:18:14it? thank you very much, so when it comes
00:18:18to the environment, it's not more of issue or political
00:18:21victory, but we have to focus on an internal issues, so the environment,
00:18:25if you look at the broader climate, greenhouse gas
00:18:29emissions,
00:18:29you know they have a strong effect and there's
00:18:32a lot of
00:18:33you know cross boundary issues that come up, but when it comes to the environmental...
00:18:37the related issues such as air quality and PM
00:18:402.5 this
00:18:42is the strong factor which is the internal you know operations that
00:18:46country we when have it in comes to the industry
00:18:48when it comes to
00:18:49you know the the way we use and burn the
00:18:53crop residue and other than that what sort of cooking
00:18:57methods we use and what sort of vehicle transport we have in place
00:19:00so if you look at the index uh we should
00:19:04not focus much on the ranking but also on the score as well. while the
00:19:08overall rank is quite good, but we should not stop here, we
00:19:11should, if you look at what Pakistan is doing currently, Pakistan
00:19:14is taking tremendous steps ever since the past two decades,
00:19:18initially with the EPA acts and then towards the national
00:19:22creen policy that came up about the four years ago, what Pakistan
00:19:26doing, what Pakistan is doing is now, Pakistan has
00:19:30international development assistant loan in the Punjab Clean year program,
00:19:34which is about 300 million dollars clubbed with the government funds.
00:19:37so the overall approach here is to first assess the baseline
00:19:41assessment where we are currently, we have some
00:19:45reports such as this index which has given us certain figures, but we we need
00:19:48to do an internal assessment of our own and assess the baseline
00:19:52assessment where we are currently and then make a five to 10 year
00:19:56journey ahead because
00:19:57you know as the world bank also says we have to reduce this
00:20:00particular by about 35% in the next decade so
00:20:04we should not just focus on just one index and where we're currently
00:20:08but also on what lies ahead because environment is a great concern still for us
00:20:11and the ranking you know it's
00:20:14improved doctor pakistan ranks 14th globally on
00:20:18EPI's forest index how significant is this performance particularly
00:20:22in context with the forest restoration and plantation
00:20:26initiatives by the government or by the provinces across the
00:20:29country so the the plantation initiatives are
00:20:33quite good if you look at it
00:20:34you know they are there initiatives in place such as the 10 billion
00:20:38tsunami and there other forestation play you programs in place
00:20:42and you have the mangrove restoration that happens the overall you know plantation
00:20:46drive is quite good but you also need to look at the broader ecosystem if you look at the
00:20:50biodiversity ranking in the index, it's not as good as what the
00:20:53forestration index shows, so
00:20:55you need to also focus on holistic approach and then also you protect these
00:20:59forests and have a strong MRV in place and look at
00:21:03five 10 year approach where you you know you protect these forests
00:21:07and you have awareness campaigns in place and then you have satellite use
00:21:11technology and you monitor them
00:21:13and you constantly protect them not just focus on when you are planting them but where they are
00:21:16after the next five or 10 years all right? or it well
00:21:20taken to discuss another aspect when it comes to the quality,
00:21:24air quality index. moving forward towards you, miriam, the
00:21:28report places pakistan's near the bottom the air quality index, how much this
00:21:32problem is linked to the factors beyond Pakistan's direct control such as the
00:21:35regional pollution, how should those factors should be reflected
00:21:39in the international assessments, because we have been as you have praised
00:21:43the policies the Punjab government, we have been witnessing
00:21:47that the governments are continuously raising their... is that
00:21:50it is not only the government's you know control, it is
00:21:54beyond border, we are being affected by our neighboring countries, so what
00:21:58needs to be done when any international institution is
00:22:01assessing the climate or the call air quality index and the factors
00:22:05involved in it, does the cross border factor is
00:22:08included or not? well, if you
00:22:12look at the emissions due to conflict and wars,
00:22:16these are massively under reporting, even in international
00:22:20negotiations as well for example at conference of Paris as well so the
00:22:23question is that how these regional emissions
00:22:27because you know the pollutant doesn't know geographical borders, they
00:22:31travel with a wind direction anywhere they want of course
00:22:35based on their thickness and density, but of
00:22:38course it does have a massive massive huge impact and if you
00:22:42look at like for example last three decades of data you
00:22:46know the emissions when it comes to air quality.
00:22:50were also cross border you know from India because we share Punjab borders
00:22:54with them, but also what is happening in Afghanistan, the internal
00:22:58conflicts and external, I would say the wars, I'm referring
00:23:02towards war that that also involves lot of emissions and it's just not
00:23:05the during war,
00:23:06you know prewar and post war also have lots of lots
00:23:10of impact and emissions involved you know and
00:23:14now Yaman, I already mentioned that from decades the emissions are
00:23:18also it's it's not too much. far from Pakistan you know
00:23:21when it comes to emissions and all the other other factors and pollutants
00:23:25and that so it does contribute a lot to pollution
00:23:29but that doesn't undermine the fact that we need to
00:23:33also focus on how we are doing internally I would
00:23:36say within Pakistan boundaries and we have you know the air quality
00:23:40issue is very very massive in Pakistan and particularly particular matter
00:23:432.5 we are not being able even
00:23:47may make make lot of progress. within Pakistan as well
00:23:51and I see two kind of issues in in that, one is of
00:23:55course it was individual side as well government makes
00:23:59policies which are in place and that is sometimes
00:24:02challenging implement because of lack of human resources, lack
00:24:06of funding and lack of data sometimes as well,
00:24:09but on the other side the society needs to play its role, for
00:24:13example there is this rule in place that you know an individual
00:24:17who holds a car or riksha or... motorbike, they are
00:24:21supposed to get fitness certificate, but how many of us get fitness
00:24:24certificate? you know, and that that i'm referring
00:24:28towards the transportation sector, because that's the biggest biggest contributor when it
00:24:32comes to particular 2.5, but every time we see
00:24:36that the attention is more towards, i would say
00:24:39soft targets, for example farmers or brick ins, i'm not saying
00:24:43that those doesn't contribute towards pollution or particular matter 2.5 or
00:24:47air quality issue, but those those are not major
00:24:51contributor, those are seasonal contributors, i would say, so we need to
00:24:55expand our monitoring towards and which by the way, punjab
00:24:58government is putting its efforts in doing so, for example,
00:25:02they are targeting industries as well, they are targeting
00:25:06transportation sector as well, you know, there are a lot of reforms which
00:25:10needs to be made at domestic level as well to curtail this issue, but
00:25:13also the data gap issue, it's it's kind of
00:25:17bridging in punjab, i would say, but it's still a huge issue when it
00:25:21comes to other provinces, for example Balochistan, KP, two
00:25:25administrative units and other provinces Singh as
00:25:29well, you know, because after 18th amendment federal government doesn't have
00:25:32lot of say when it comes to environmental actions or environmental
00:25:36monitoring, so provincial governments need to step up from other
00:25:40provinces which I mentioned administrative units to really do
00:25:44something about air quality, but air quality is also very
00:25:47complicated because it's related to your
00:25:51natural,
00:25:52you know forest cover as well, so private housing society also
00:25:56contributes to that, the construction industry also contributes to air quality issue,
00:25:59the waste burning openly is another major and massive issue which
00:26:03does contribute to air quality problem in Pakistan as well, so it's a
00:26:07complex issue, I would say where where Pakistan needs a
00:26:11lot of interventions, not just at home
00:26:15but also cross water collaboration and climate diplomacy in
00:26:19general internationally, yes Mariam, well taken, thank you so much Mariam
00:26:22for joining in and sharing your views with us, we were discussing about the climate change
00:26:26and the scale up of Pakistan, 22 scales up of Pakistan in
00:26:30environmental performance index, Pakistan is performing, we have been
00:26:34discussing about the issues, the challenges which are faced by Pakistan and
00:26:37opportunities uh in this regard where the government is
00:26:41making sustainable policies, environmental sustainable policies
00:26:45and that is it, we were joined by Miss Mariam Shabir Abaasi, she is environmental
00:26:49expert, she has joined us from USA and then we were having Dr. Bakht Bilal
00:26:53Khan, he is head of climate action weather wale, thank you so much Dr. Bakh for joining
00:26:57in, thank you so much miss Mariam for joining in
00:27:02about cross border terrorism faced by Pakistan, we have discussed about the
00:27:05cross border environmental issues that are being uh faced
00:27:09by Pakistan since long, we have discussed about the gaps and the
00:27:13roads ahead for
00:27:18Pakistan
00:27:18TV.
00:28:38Pakistan TV team is here at the Beijing capital international
00:28:41airport
00:28:48where the new generation decides the next chapter of
00:28:50Bangladesh.
00:29:03second thought about the fact that the man of
00:29:06peace
00:29:11you about about the pakistani
00:29:15thank
00:29:15you.
00:30:33the deputy prime minister and the foreign minister apart from Islamabad to
00:30:37New York where he will accompany the prime minister Shabas Sharif from the 21st to the
00:30:4125th of September for the high level week of
00:30:4481st session the United Nations General
00:30:47Assembly.
00:30:53Iran sets conditions for reviving negotiations with the United States
00:30:57including an end to the war, the release the frozen.
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