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 i