the many woman has arrived in the united states to visit her dying son after a year long legal battle to get a visa she been prevented from visiting him by the u.s. travel ban on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries. protests over food prices and sudan has pushed the government to declare a state of emergency in the city of araa and northern river nile state. demonstrators set the headquarters of the ruling party on fire the protests have been gaining momentum and sudan this week with inflation now at over sixty percent most sudanese say the living conditions are getting worse and they say they are experiencing food and fuel shortages. those are the headlines keep it on al jazeera for all your latest news throughout the day people in power is next. on the twenty that of december the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls off the road to yet the lady who will be announced the winner of this

already controversial presidential election join us for special coverage of the osses election on al-jazeera. in july twenty eighth imran crones p.t.i. poetry dramatically overturned the political status quo impact the stone and he became its prime minister which will the former cricketer turned politician be able to keep the electoral promises he made to make our pledges to revive the economy fortune justice and most challenging me to defeat corruption in montana has no idea what is against what is actually fighting against and what kind of resistance would come and not just from the politicians it's going to come from all quarters

inspects the dentical of the same tag that action construct as that resistance develops. pakistani journalist rahim shamsi to weigh up the successes and failures of counts first one hundred days in office. for over two decades in iran khan pakistan's former cricketing hero has cultivated an image as a known crusader fighting against the corrupt dynastic elites who keep the

stranglehold on this country's politics. they fly south to suddenly a subset of us are just out. to find out exactly funny under. what is it ok are you serious negative that iran han bit about being totally anti-corruption having zero tolerance for it and how he sort of actually pointed fingers at poor people's party and b m n n the two largest parties of pakistan as being corrupt and being just sponsible for all that is happening in here in this country nobody thought it's going to take off the people of pakistan are so tolerant of corruption as being a part of of the political elite that this narrative and never take off but that narrative did take off and this year after a bitterly contested general election khan and his pakistan that he can soft

finally achieve the power he so desperately craved imran khan promised that the first months of his government would start an irreversible process of change of ending corruption and building a powerful economy of looking after minority communities and refocusing the country's foreign policy he pledged in other words to create a whole new pakistan. i'm a pakistani television journalist and over the last fifteen years i followed him on hans long journey from the political margins to the top job now i'm curious to see how he'll manage the realities of power when he be able to keep his promises. it was. fun. watching the freshly elected prime minister amid all the pomp and circumstance and

being greeted by the powerful military who have ruled pakistan for nearly forty years it was hard to escape the thought that he'd been handed a poisoned chalice. not one of his be decisive in the last seventy years since pakistan came into existence as. yet imran khan was determined to show that he could hit the ground running he is the first pakistani politician to announce one hundred day agenda for his new government. yet hundred years rule. is gone but the hundred. when. he was a dog. these subsidies. go up is a subset of the structure. obs. opposite

of daughter. so how is that one hundred day plan going. to city its commercial and financial center its largest port and the gateway to the rest of the country it's a good place to assess the government's progress chances of success. supporters would like to give them more time but the first one hundred days have been marked by rising expectations as expressed their despair and prostrations the injustices they have suffered so long hoping the new government will offer them some comfort

and. thank you in a moment. for me. i'm very. glad i'm not not very. good i mean and i know much. from protests about police shootings and college and gun put in stickles that something be done about for didn't build it's this demo has it all a pot pourri of complaints and problems and demands they want iran hand to address . today we are here to show solidarity with among them our saturn and i don't know died on thirteenth of august in a shoot out. they were not caught and. what do you expect from the people because now they are in power the government forced off on their promise the police has promised to change the rules of automatic

weapons on the street so they should not just talk about it and they must change it physically we have still not seen that change secondly we hope that more that there is a law that hospitals must provide emergency care so i hope that law will be implemented and implemented and it still sent. me was not. an opposition i relied upon made the limitation on the right i mean we focus on his policies no one hundred days is nearly over prime minister we expectations are still riding high. yet. demands for justice and an end to corruption have been a recurring theme in this country for many years but although the government has moved against its political opponents like previous administrations who have promised much it has still to challenge the powerful vested interests that truly

dominate pakistan despite the care need for it to do so. you need better. jobs in the wake. of this beautiful residential suburb was built recently but behind the facade is a story of intimidation forced evacuations and violence. i mean. nearly two hundred villages were forced out of their homes big business groups with links with local politicians and police but most of them off those who resisted soon. moved out and his elderly father didn't. i mean i will not as i mean

a calm attitude was a mean journey this time no one will budge on those we're going to me work don't carry. sorry i'm no got the bow around but a bottle in the corners. but a bad car a very. valid skill but don't go to school but a bad guy i'm lovin will donate. the meaning it. is fighting his case through the courts but the pakistani judicial system is notoriously slow and skewed to favor the rich and powerful. cases take months even years before a final judgment is made more to the point there's no sign yet that in my hands government is doing very much to tackle land mafias or other powerful individuals homo buckeye's a professor karachi university a political analyst and an expert in international relations pakistan it is i mean

i hate to use this that actually is. the peoples thrive on it and i personally think time has no idea what he is against what he is actually fighting against and what kind of resistance would come and not just from the politicians go away to come from all quarters if he spits the identical of this anti-corruption construct was. in fact within a few weeks of han taking office the pakistani media was reporting on the financial wrongdoing of some of his own ministers the birkie works for one of the country's leading english language newspapers. some of their party members themselves are facing allegations have faced allegations previously as well particularly in the. previous government and. so one would have wanted them to start

cleaning house first and then move on to allegations and you know what they do they come on t.v. and they talk about corruption cases and they keep talking about corruption on the opposition so maybe if they sort of went a little more had a little more introspection and started off from their own party that would make a difference also i think they will get caught up in this rhetoric eventually in any case because it's not a simple option isn't as simple to get rid off. so how exactly will the government keep its own house in order it's a question i took to moran is smiled one of the co-founders of the p.t.i. party and now the governor of the sin the province we believe in starting accountability from ourselves the prime minister present himself first to the authorities saying we can start from me and then go down to others i'm not saying

that all everyone in. this government is an angel there must be people who don't believe in our agenda or program but you know everybody is going to learn the lesson we're not going to spare anyone we're from. when we're from our position we from any walk of life we'll treat everyone the same. do her justice just rhetoric well it remains to be seen but so far find words have yet to translate into action . eliminating corruption wasn't the only major change that iran hunt promised during the election he also pledged to turn around pakistan's ailing economy and create jobs. but just come there's something kind of going on here by sentiment. that i generally hear i'm going to have in your mind mushy mission usually i cannot be anybody i must go but just sit there salt and

just watch out for you. i'm just observe i must have been guided you would of how we got. but within days of coming to power the new government was forced to face some harsh truths with an increase in imports and very low exports the pakistani rupees has dropped in value leading to a rise in inflation and price increases across the board i don't know supermarket i met shyster become a widow trying to make ends meet living on a pension. so what did you expect the first one hundred days to be like you know whatever is happening everything is going no go what you expect. to go on really doing. what do you want that eventually it will come down also you don't want the prices to come down inflation to come off course and that's the expectation they see their stick friction because inflation is more than the property is it. next i

wanted to find out how the price rises and economic crisis were going down with imran khan's most devoted supporters. in a could actually suburb i found professor she and her family all voted for the in the last elections saw then i guess it was a very. vocal at the end so then me forty looking as a whole the other. stuff was. all of a. startled. or reform little initial guardian on it or something a ball team which can go up a hawk which can come down on a stock. but for the moment such ambitious plans remain just that the new government has no money to finance them in the past imraan khan had been

scathing about getting any foreign aid or help. hummingbird up the number to a gun i am not he said because i want to get out because then we learn. to live. now in power in iran han has done a u. turn he has gone for an economic bailout from the south the government then from the chinese and finally the i.m.f. this being the twenty second time in seventy years that a pakistani government has asked the i.m.f. for help. at one of could all she's leading universities yes or been goalie is a game of economic studies i wanted to know what he made the new government's policies. so what you're saying is that the p.d.i. government was not prepared had not done their homework that strike and how is that reflected well the only confusion about whether to go to aa and therefore not good

why. does the government ignore it was floundering instead to deter this it will go in or even statements like i'll commit suicide but not what was left. and on the same day the prime minister is making one statement of an interest in history is making another statement to have created this whole. mess in terms of perception. and then there was a confusing fury about one of khan's boyfriends to keep team of economic advisors around that highlighted some of the complex challenges on faces in getting his policies through. the media is a respected economist and academic known internationally and throughout the muslim world. could be said to go nevertheless within days of his appointment and it was an uproar from the religious groups protesting that all the for me was from the

secretary and said to be a muslim and therefore he should be dismissed from the government. initially resisted. then a few days later the government did another u. turn and given. it was a political blunder it was very badly handled but i don't think he had any choice. and he realized that. and he realizes that if he goes the other way and chooses to retain him and sort of digs his heels on it it would backfire inveighs that would be very difficult for him to handle the main group behind the protest was a relatively new religious party that they take in the back pakistan or the t.l.b. . holder is one of the leading activists it's another million year because you're kind of you're only. going to love it more do

the law islam's or. was it just leave that he got this in the hope monger. up the numbers are going to look at it look at the. core of your family. accept to go there you go pick up because if you know allison they're going to have a very well sort of i. was. shorter than women coming up. a lot only an obvious home would bottleneck. we're going to draw i may. have been limited by me the deal became into existence a few years ago defending the killer of governesses seed he was shocked by his bodyguard because as governor he had criticised the death sentence and the jailing of. a pakistani christian on charges of blasphemy. she spent ten years in jail

waiting for the judges to decide whether she was innocent or guilty on the thirtieth of october seventy days after moran hahn became prime minister the supreme court in islamabad decided he was innocent of all charges brought against her and set a free. a few hours later the t.l.b. and its supporters came out onto the streets bringing most cities to a standstill. they called for the three supreme court judges to be killed they declared the army chief to be a non muslim and called upon the army to dismiss him. a job or to say i listened to the t.v. for the first footage of the search for saddam to stop the cover was the first step of the of the first photo at the site of all to tell you the center of life the supreme court for the first of several others earlier. that night imran khan went on television to warn the protesters to give up or face the full might of the state

. or. a. bank it is. now clear was a gun to. a prism of. but the next stage as the protests increased in size the government did another turn and instead of using force to disperse the protesters they started negotiations the leadership of the tea appeal was not touched. was not free. the whole affair underlined some of the most intractable problems the han administration faces how do you work effectively within the constraints of an increasingly divided society at home and how to overcome the negative stereotypes of pakistan a groom. gibran nasr is one of pakistan's leading political activists

he is a lawyer and has been fighting for the rights of religious minorities in pakistan even the worst critics of the box and put it in soften the wrong con game in his support when he addressed the nation and he said documenting what allow anybody to join him to the street while he was addressing the leaders of the take a look back and from them to den back off and retract and then sign off an agreement where most of the terms are agreed to fought for right now the mission is not feeling confident right now people are disappointed with the government and for the what needs to start is a process where national consensus is very hard to read together as a nation cannot stand as a doctor would use a gun or science it's not a div because this is a regarding boarding our future generation this is about hijacking our national entity and ought to be as a muslim and we cannot allow dot. nearly a month later the deal be leaders were picked up and charged with sedition and treason. the white in the pakistani flag represents the minorities that live there over the years they've been threatened many have been killed some say the new

government has sent the minorities some very. the mixed signals also wary pakistan's neighbors both india and afghanistan claim that attacks on their countries are carried out by groups based in pakistan charges that the pakistani government denies the united states has stopped all aid to the pakistani military in an attempt to put pressure on the new government to change its policy but it hasn't yet what it has done is push the new government to become even closer to china losing the fine balance the previous governments have tried to maintain between the u.s. and china. i think we have to strike a balance not just between china and he was you have to strike a balance across the board even within the region you have to strike a balance between india and china and. india. other countries that balance

this is the most logical thing i don't think it is a question of or. hurting the balance one of the or the other. the balance at the moment is tilted towards china it has been investing heavily in pakistan and they are building a major highway from the southwest the port city of that once up and running it would reduce the journey time and cost of transporting chinese goods to the west by hot. china pakistan on the board or boy. could transform the economy of pakistan and its foreign policy. i think there's a better time shift in the thinking of the establishment also and because we are going towards the scottish old politics connectivity is emerging as a painful pox time and they don't they have now see it for the political and economic survival of books that you see you're going to have quoted tools and the

gun just stay empty got to do is means that they should be functional soviet need connectivity with the finest sun and connectivity to india for this to really happen to really know their turnaround that everybody's looking for. if this happens it would benefit the pakistani people and change their lives it is blocked in iraq han has proud to do with time after time for the past when he gives his message is more valuable than any other for that you can do to the last forty years it's a stand i work as a rouse in an action in the ordinary people the pakistan desperate for a better future but if the last one hundred days are anything to go by it's certainly going to be smooth they may.

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