Pakistan bans Pashtun Tahafuz Movement: What next?

DW (English)

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,

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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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