Pakistan bans Pashtun Tahafuz Movement: What next?

Name: Pakistan bans Pashtun Tahafuz Movement: What next?
Uploaded: 2024-10-10T19:25:11+00:00
Duration: 3 min 57 s
Channel: DW (English)
Description: Pakistani authorities are cracking down on the movement to ensure that its annual congregation doesn't take place. This has turned its supporters even more against Islamabad.

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Pakistani authorities are cracking down on the movement to ensure that its annual congregation doesn't take place. This has turned its supporters even more against Islamabad.

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00:00It's been six years since the PTM was established, there have been martyrdoms, jails,

00:12there have been military torture cells, three MPOs, FIRs, prisons, jails,

00:18there have been jails, prisons, jails, prisons, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails, jails,

00:48you know, who lived in that in those areas, which were subject to various military operations,

00:54terrorist attacks and all that and people, I mean, their livelihood has been destroyed,

00:59their property, everything.

01:48the people for a positivity for Pakistan, then it is acceptable. But if they want to create a state

01:54within a state, nobody will. Your state is very powerful, nobody will allow them. Probably the

02:00information with the government and the agencies was of the kind that this has reached to this

02:05state of, you know, prescription and they have been prescribed.

02:18The PTM leadership is not like, you know, donor-funded or western-funded organization.

02:26But obviously, if you really push them to the wall, then there is always a possibility when

02:34such movements, you know, become like, become separatist movement. For example, when they give in,

02:40you know, they think the state is not going to respond to their demands and they give,

02:44they give up to that, then, of course, they'll go for a separatism.

03:07If there is a peculiar political position in the country, you have to step back,

03:13you have to get down and talk to everyone, speak to everyone, put your personal agendas aside.

03:20But the national agenda, which is the agenda of Pakistan, which is the agenda of progression,

03:25which is the agenda of stability, that has to be pursued.

03:43Basically, resolve the kind of their demands and they should try to,

03:47you know, see whatever they're demanding, they need to go for the solution.

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