Ismat Raza Shahjehan is the the Deputy General-Secretary of the Awami Workers Party, President of the Women’s Democratic Front and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement.

Ismat comes on The Pakistan Experience to discuss Mahrang Baloch's protest in Islamabad, PTM, the Politics of Resistance, The Left, Revolution and the State's Monopoly over violence.

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

1:30 State atrocities on the Baloch March

9:30 Why peripheries are not allowed to protest in Islamabad

17:30 Parliamentary Politics vs Resistance Politics

21:30 Revolution, System Change and Violence

32:30 Philosophy of Non-violence and the State's Monopoly over Violence

40:25 Militarization of Pushtoon Culture and Zia-ul-Haq

53:30 Why Urban Pakistan does not care about the Peripheries

1:00:00 KhyberPukhtoonkhwa. PTI and Pakistan's Political System

1:08:00 Left Politics, Progressive Causes and Identity Politics

1:18:30 Audience Questions