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student protests against the citizenship. and speed dating with a difference. taking a long patterns match making. i'm british welcome to the news asia it's good to have you with us pakistan's former army chief. has been sentenced to death in a treason case it's the 1st time such a sentence has been handed down to a farm on the chief in pakistan the case from its to 2007 when musharraf as president imposed a state of emergency suspended the constitution and placed several judges under house arrest. in a bloodless coup in 1909 toppling the civilian government of sharif. in the

united arab emirates where he's receiving medical treatment. i'm for more i'm joined by family chums from. some of them to say you why is this sentence so significant well it is significant symbolically because you see that the military is so powerful in pakistan the military dictators broke the constitution they suspended the constitution through government elected civilian governments so and the judiciary always supported the military actions of the coups and the suspensions the 1st time we see that the judiciary actually stood up against the military and say it is wrong and we have the death sentence to the former military dictator but who is musharraf so hugely significant and also symbolically significant so the judiciary might have stood up to the army but then given the power that the army exercises in pakistan what are the chances the sentence are

likely to be counted out well the chances are already low in my opinion for. a split decision and also musharraf has the right to appeal against the. superior court the supreme court for example so i know it is likely that the supreme court will have a different decision but we're not sure about it but there is a legal rough and he needs to follow that his supporters will not come out you know take to the streets and you know protest against the verdict this is not going to happen so all he needs to do is now to follow the legal procedure the army would try its best to make sure that the money that musharraf is not because that will give out a very bad message to the public and it will show that the military speak will not show its weakness british right and that's very believe it for the time being i'm speaking to us about this sentence handed down to pervez musharraf under so much consideration and you can find out more background on this story on our website dot

com. police in india are facing criticism for the heavy hand of the spawns 2 students protesting a new citizenship law the citizenship amendment act provides a pathway to indian citizenship for religious minorities from neighboring countries with the exception of muslims students at dennys john the university. police are among many across the country that have joined in protests against the law on line on images like these have sparked outrage in india and wielding police snatch a student. their excess of force only stopped when confronted with incredible bravery part of what eyewitnesses say was a day of violence against you it's. culminated in officers firing tear gas on poor testers inside the jamia millia islamia

university in delhi before raiding the campus. so we were waiting on the police t.v. when the police came we thought that at least now we. have it but it came out during your visit the police started beating us and abusing us the aftermath in the library speaks to the chaos scores were injured police sent out a public relations officer to clean up the mess. when we started pushing the protesters back from the road stones were pelted from both sides so tear gas was used at that time the rowdy elements went inside the university and the police chased them in there because a lot of stone pelting was going on we are doing a thorough investigation. investigation i'm going to sit down protest opposition leaders blame the government for the heavy handed response. that had me summit on the government has attacked students by entering universities so we will

fight for the constitution of india. we have said it time and again we will fight against the government. letting the hostility to the citizen law keeps gathering steam across india in west bengal firebrand leader mamata banerjee led protests critics say the act which grants a route to citizenship or not the migrants threatens india's secular foundation but perhaps it will be the site of on rest spreading among student bodies that will give no render a modis government most cause for concern. and the variance of these protests has prompted india's prime minister narendra modi to respond on twitter he called the outcry unfortunate and deeply distressed distressing here short people that know india has anything to worry regarding this act he also added that this is the time to maintain peace unity and brotherhood and joining me now is south asia director

of human rights watch menard she done really really angry prime minister more the has appealed for calm in the midst of these violent protests do you think the extent of the opposition has caught the government by surprise. i do hope that. the prime minister now recognizes that there is public opinion against this and that he does the right thing. in diverse in these policies in a democracy it's very important for for an elected leader he protests. are making this about politics but do you think that these protests that we're seeing across the country represent the large majority view on the citizenship amendment. it is hard to test that the question the question really is that there has been. a very significant number

of voices students who are out on the streets. the government has made a difference in lux on this issue initially it was all about trying to control immigration which of course is a is also a problematic because it is immigration trying to control immigration based on religion but the bigger concern really is how this amendment bill is tied to a national citizenship process now when happens in a citizenship issue process is that if a non muslim cannot produce the paperwork they were automatically to get down to citizenship while a muslim would not be able to now in a country where we know for a fact that they provoke is extremely hard to produce this this leads to concerns that

a significant chunk of india's population may be denied citizenship and that really is the basis for the protest now the government needs to run very early and see if this policies and to understand that people are objecting to this kind of violation of the constitution but what about a form of objection that has been a lot of biden's police officer i've also been injured in these protests what would you say to that. but of course we would call upon all to just a stupid joke only engage in peaceful protest and not engage in violence but there are other issues involved here the culture of street violence unfortunately has been building up for some time lushly led in fact by digitally supporters this is been the time when you know when we should be supporters have gone and vandalized movie theaters are our reporters readings are you know targeted production of movies are are. was spend they have actually attacked muslims on the street

claiming that they were illegally trading in b. if are part of that people who. love jihad now this kind of street violence in which a little anti violence we have been saying for the longest day is something that needs to be contained this culture has come in because because the gauge appears to you still act against the supporters when they're engaged in this kind of violence now the same thing is happening here there are numerous protesters also saying that they did not commit the violence it was done by video the supporters quickly to make them look bad now is how to get in any any and the circumstances what exactly has happened but certainly what should happen is is is a is a coming of situation a fair investigation and for the for the b.g.p. leadership and particularly the prime minister who is after all the primacy of all of india due to come out not doing it in politics and hardwick nice that there is no shame in a democracy where leaders listen to people's voices and it was close right next

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