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Compiling a thread on PTM's recent press conference, just so we have all the clips in one place. At the end, I'll attach a timeline of the state's previous offers of negotiations and evidence that PTM activists were backstabbed every time with jail terms, attacks, & censorship.
Manzoor Pashteen explains that the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement started in opposition to extrajudicial killings and rights abuses by security agencies.
Pashteen said that PTM welcomed negotiations but believed that the freedoms of expression and assembly were non-negotiable. It would negotiate with the state but would not surrender its right to protest, when & where an injustice occurred.
Godspeed.
#StudentsSolidarityMarch
#StudentsSolidarityMarch
This was the size of #StudentsSolidarityMarch in Feb '19. Video above shows how quickly it grew by Nov '19. That growth was due to the effort of student organizers & increase in student grievances but also due to mentoring by academics like Ammar Ali Jan.
Lahore's #StudentsSolidarityMarch gave a platform to #AlamgirWazir, an activist from the Pashtun Council in Punjab Uni, to articulate his grievances about army's role in FATA. It's this kind of cross-ethnic, cross-class solidarity that most irks Generals.
Creating a thread on students from across India protesting in solidarity with Jamila Milia students. Proud of the youth, their courage and their unity.
Please keep adding to this thread!
1. TISS (Photos via @sachinkalbag @httweets) #JamiaProtest #StudentsSolidarityMarch
Please keep adding to this thread!
1. TISS (Photos via @sachinkalbag @httweets) #JamiaProtest #StudentsSolidarityMarch
Pakistani students will be marching for their rights in over a dozen cities in Pakistan today. Here is why they are right to be angry & why it is essential that the whole country listens to their demands. Thread. #StudentsSolidarityMarch
Let’s start w/ some honesty: Pakistani students have it pretty bad. Pakistan boasts one of the worst education systems in the world, a rot that runs all the way from primary to higher education levels, with no meaningful reform attempts by any government. #StudentsSolidarityMarch
Our dubious education records include the world’s 2nd highest number of out-of-school children (22.8m), one of the highest school dropout rates (50% of all primary school students), & one of the lowest female literacy rates (48%) in the world.
