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welcome to. it's good to have you with us we begin with the case of. a pakistani christian woman wrongly convicted of blasphemy but set free by the highest court in her land ordinarily that would mean that you'd be featured on two hundred all my life nor. have to leave. to be truly free the fifty three year old mother of five left the country canada to join her daughters were already that yes more or. were endured extraordinary hardship because of her fate. she's one of the most talked about women in pakistan as a baby pictured here shortly after her conviction in two thousand and ten the christian mother of five sentenced to death for alleged remarks about islam during an

argument with fellow farm workers who refused to share their glass of water with a non muslim. she was acquitted in october twenty eight hundred and went into hiding not on death row but still in constant fear for her life and this is why hard line islamists calling for her to be hanged. the supreme court's decision triggered days of nationwide protests. who are who in every corner of the country the sons of islam have voiced opposition to the supreme court verdict by going on to the streets. what kind of a verdict is this from the supreme court of an islamic republic which is troubling muslims but satisfying infidels. demonstrations were only called off when the government agreed to bar bibi from leaving the country pending an appeal to her acquittal but this case is already

linked to the killings of at least two people. the governor of punjab province some on to z are seen here on the right was assassinated by his bodyguard in two thousand and eleven after speaking in b.b.c. defense later the same year federal minister for minorities shahbaz bhatti was killed after calling for her release. and this was the reaction in january of this year after the supreme court upheld its verdict that's crowds demanding death. the crowd though didn't get their wish and bibi it appears has been able to move pakistan from all we have correspondent. joining us from islamabad salon good to see you bibi was acquitted last year but she only got to leave the country today what took so long. when right after the supreme court the equipage of from the last in the charges and she was released from the moved on due she was not actually

released but you stick it in the protective custody by the officers and she demanded protective custody throughout the seven months until she traveled from here to canada last night the reason was the sentiment of some of the extremists people living in pakistan her security was the first priority that's meant. she was nothing was disclosed to anyone and in the meanwhile during all the seven months going to buck a son was in the negotiation with different countries and you know it was the number one and then it was the negotiating with the government but the sudden the result of the western countries who were negotiating and it was all happening behind the curtain there was no news on the media and then finally these new solutions are done just to get it done this is what prime is a boston and on one end to get to two words. and giving an interview to the foreign

media last month and that's where he specifically toward that she's a free citizen all and she can gentlemen you know and it was us that is it's a matter of days or weeks that she can travel the prime minister clarified that it's going to take a some of the few weeks and that's what we have seen right after three to four weeks she is going to get it right now as if it is acquittal saw furious protests on the streets. and then that forced her to live in hiding how did the government handed her situation did that do a good job or fair. the decision of supreme court saw protests all across the country and the country was on standstill that the city's the major cities was going on lockdown by the protesters the premise of all of this is done how to address the nation and how to do and they are message to all these protests is that sun does not want to use the ball against innocent citizens of august on later on the government open job and it was usually with these extremists through just

groups and i didn't know. it was a tweet point. it was a he got us you eat an emissions you least on exit control of this but destruction of the building don't really think at that time and there was a lot of criticism on that later on once the deed was done that these protesters and the lot of the protesters within the range often doubted the crackdown against them was there and all of the top leadership was arrested by the police and they're still in the they're still in the custody of police and potentially that's one reason why everybody has been able to travel to canada khaled joining us from islamabad thank you very much for that to thailand next where the election commission has announced results of the march twenty four gentlemen election it said the poor thai party of former prime minister thaksin shinawatra has won the most seats in the lower house of parliament but the military along. has won the

most popular votes crucially none of the parties have won an absolute majority and both will need pot knows if they want to form the best government this means that we still don't know officially who will govern thailand has more from the election commission. if you look at the results there are seventy four parties who won seats in the early a vote count compared to the one today is different because of reelections in some districts. and there are also recounts and reelections at some voting stations. and several candidates have been disqualified which also affects the vote count. and the election commission received more than four hundred complaints and has up to or europe to investigate them but before we go any further it's important to understand how the. elected the lower house of parliament has five hundred seats in

the upper house at the senate two hundred fifty that's a total of seven hundred fifty seats in parliament any party needs to win more than half that's three hundred seventy six seats needed to form a government however yes to catch the military appoints the two fifty members of the senate and not all of the remaining five hundred seats in the lower house up to the vote only three hundred fifty of these five hundred are voted for by the people directly and the remaining one fifty are allocated proportionally to a complicated formula two parties. and this time around suits have been allocated to twenty six parties in this list of first for thailand dungeon also but one city is a political scientist at thailand's. tell us what you know as the internet got that wrong and is also an associate professor in a billion professor somewhat consider it good to have you back in the studio now you have the figure of twenty six new parties we're going to allocated seats in

this party list but you have put time which won the most seats in direct voting which is not in this list can this bizarre to be believed. it is hard to believe that it will happen regardless because i mean if we discount all of this very complicated calculation and the formula the fundamental idea is for the prole military coalition to win the election right and put a tie and a future forward are perceived as the options so they will try every way to kind of exclude with these two parties no matter how much they win the votes there were these two parties would become the opposition eventually but you have a situation in which nobody in thailand at the moment has an absolute majority do you see this happening that the and t. government opposition that had been formed some weeks back that could potentially

disintegrate in favor of the pro-military parties. right now i think the smaller parties could go to the appropriate three coalition but most likely the two big parties like a tie or a future forward will stay and all together they have like more than two hundred seats and that's actually almost half of the nowhere house so i mean if they're probably three coalition could become the government the problem for as is. with a cover and with you know probably. less than half of the lower house seats or almost. you know. about half explain to us the room is the military in all of this and we talked about the two hundred fifty seats in the senate that appointed by the military does the military hold the upper hand no matter what the official

result is oh yes i know the military has been behind these signed off the electoral process and we talked about this last time regulations and laws all of that but what's interesting right now is this is the election and it's an open season for politicians right so you have these small parties trying to negotiate for seats for benefits there would have and i think the more you have the parties in the call the sion the more difficult the nicholas station would become and therefore you would have a very unstable government where internal conflicts loom large and you would have laws that cannot be passed and in five hundred among different factions what does this mean for the people of thailand you have almost a split that appears to be developing broad military and dimitri. it means

a lot because in the past conflicts like these can be negotiated there is a figure that would be respected by all sides that cool it may be a conflict but right now that figure doesn't exist anymore but they also have of the type population has changed and they were not want to kind of compromise their position just because they want to live in a peaceful country right and you know to see how this pans out in the future especially in terms of government formation just about every thank you so much thanking me and explaining this to us in the studio thank you. that's it for today there's most tori's on our website to do the blue dot com what was that asia and be sure to check us out on facebook as well thailand is still in celebration mode after this week's coronation of the new king we leave you now with an elephant procession in his on a through the streets of bangkok we'll see you next time away. we're

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