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dummies to help keep dangerous drivers in line. i'm melissa jan welcome to d.w. news asia thank you for joining us month who are is the face of a growing protest movement in pakistan one daring to challenge the country's powerful military and earlier this week officials arrested him on conspiracy and sedition charges has accused security forces of widespread abuse against the ethnic pashtun minority under the pretext of its war on terror his group has accused the military of extrajudicial killings and thousands of disappearances he says that as the army has battled islamist militants it has unfairly targeted passions in the country's north west in just the 2 years of his activism has seen his movement grow

across the country the military has imposed a strict media blackout on the group but their peaceful protests still draw tens of thousands of people. i'm joined in the studio by o'malley of social media service and also correspondent shots jelani shots at let's start with you who is minds are pashtun and why is his message getting ground minutes so most people in pakistan had never heard of seen until about 2 years ago it's a fascinating story how he's now suddenly a household name in pakistan and he somebody was born in the tribal region of salt as you just on the border region along the finest on he's a son of a schoolteacher he was studying veterinary science in school and he grew up during the so-called war on terror you witnessed a lot of bombing and killing and brutality around him and eventually his own family

was forced to move out of the tribal areas so he has seen all this firsthand and when you hold rallies across pakistan where tens of thousands of young people come he speaks from his heart from his books and experience and that's why his message resonates with a lot of people the bugs bunny army however sees him as a foreign funded agent they call him a traitor they seem as somebody who is acting on behalf of external forces namely of the understand and there are many opposition groups why do you think the military is particularly threatened by him. well. many people who criticize the military or its alleged abusers in just on province in pakistan's other areas. they come from different ethnic groups the reason seen as a bigger threat is because he belongs to push their own economic identity now the

pakistani army is mostly comprised of people from punjab soldiers are mainly to kruger from the biggest province of punjab and the 2nd biggest ethnic group pushed around and there's a fear that month george bush seems the message is resonating that bush to an officer and soldier. so it becomes a case of sort of divided loyalties and sort of pakistani army wants to ensure that this doesn't carry on and david do whatever they can to stop him. it was just talking about the message being spread omar i'm curious if there is a media blackout against reporting on this movement how is the message spreading it is true indeed the has been a media blackout and you can't really cover or talk about the movement by maneuver seen on on local media. unless it is taking cues from the military and sort of. beating the talking points of the establishment but but as you said

they have been a huge following both on the ground and on social media and i think it's partly due to their use of social media like twitter and facebook i've been following them for the last we are since they began and they have been using social media to call for protests across pakistan and across across the word and they have been life streaming. you know the protest and at times that protests have been watched by thousands of people or what have you been seeing over the last few days since his arrest so it's very interesting and i'll show you this one tweet by a local jerk. at least in karachi was covering up the protest she toward their smartphone has become a rights activist in pakistan to make their lives being heard over the activist or light streaming the protest and this was a protest off about a few 100 people. talk about censorship has anyone commented about censorship and

the fact that this movement isn't being reported on yeah i think unfortunately for the i think for the large fired a lot of a lot of t.v. channels are not even trying to cover them anymore but there was this one t.v. presenter who explained why the last segment of her t.v. program was dropped earlier this week. saying because i did voted on most. most thing is one of the parliament that is linked with the d.m. and she thought that she asked on what charges was the arrested but it was censored and she wrote welcome to sensitive people must suffer in silence. well up till now the state has seemed unsure of how to deal with he emphasizes peaceful demonstration and upholding the constitution here's an excerpt from a speech she gave last year in lahore. to the people who call us traitors the constitution of pakistan shows who is

a real traitor article 19 and pakistan's constitution says that the people have freedom of speech. article 6 of pakistan's constitution clearly says anyone who sabotages the constitution is a traitor how many times have these generals sabotaged this constitution. so is he correctly quoting the constitution there and if so do the charges of hate speech and sedition against him hold any water. well most people don't think so basically he's calling for accountability of people in the past on your army people who are allegedly involved in ordering killings and abductions and committing torture and abuses and it is. seen has been seen before and standard any wonder that their politicians writers journalists activists when they call for their

accountability they are in turn accused of being a traitor and then put in jail. correspondent shouted jelani and social media editor thanks to you both. over 80 indian and international galleries will show at this year's india art fair with previews beginning today it is considered the premier place to showcase south asian art and has been running for more than a decade. right up to the last minute there hammering rushing around and hanging pictures. exhibitors worldwide are joining this year's india art fair the biggest of its kind in south asia. among those putting on the finishing touches on photo artist ravi agarwal and his gallery owner in the past 12 years the india art fair has helped contemporary artists like ravi find international

recognition the art world in europe for example has a very long written history and a very long period of being accepted in society artists wall with somebody who just did something they were not very important part of it's only now that the expression have been found finding worth in terms of being recognized. primarily explores environmental issues the transformation of landscapes in one small series he portrays indian environmental activists and their core demands their work exposes the conflict between economic development and environmental destruction which is worse in india than in most other countries in the real 23 and in india less than a few percent or 60 percent of the wealth so this is in distribution of wealth that some people gain more by the kenya quality of go you've got the part of the name of development and benefit for the poor but the poor don't get the benefit other mega

themes of the times my climate change in migration are likewise reflected at this year's fair with sales of $180000000.00 euros a year india's art market is still just a nice internationally but as living standards in south asia rise interest in art is growing too to promote local talent 70 percent of the india art fairs exhibition space is reserved for regional calories. the indian art market is still nice and and the good thing about that is that there's a lot of room to grow we have a lot about students that are coming out of colleges and the numbers of galleries are also now includes things. giving more pitch in a days to more young artists so it's a very exciting time actually to be in this art market because it's a growing fees which is always fun that fun will be shed over the coming 4 days by some 50000 collectors gallery owners and all of us for one long weekend india's capital is also the hub of the art world. well they can scare off

crows but can they full drivers in the indian city of bangalore officials believe mannequins dressed up as traffic cops might bring some rules to the road. no this is not some impromptu fashion show to grab their a normal attempt to keep order on the roads of bangalore police here say they don't have enough offices to man every junction so they've brought in some extra help. they will see the mannequins at the distance. they'll discipline them since but when they come near the money. or does the magic when the food. bank busy writes a home to 8000000 vehicles and lots of gridlock. doutzen cap and hi viz vest the plastic police officer looks the part of

a dummy only end up catching well dummies. and going price tag. properly we are driving after seeing. the my on the year much of a choice i'm sure it is going to people will start to notice it is a manic and they will break the rules again unfollowed that any of those. police that you feel where one step ahead. is this mannequins with police constables of police officers. confusing you want to confuse these habitual road. so far the response seems to be more amusements than confusion which in a city known for its technology sometimes the simplest solution stand out to be the best. we leave you now with words from this weekend's india art fair in delhi

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