The Pakistan Army has committed many grave human rights violations in order to target the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) with its draconian response. This has not only failed to subdue the PTM but has strengthened its resolve and popular support and risked the inflammation of social divisions. In an interview with Junaid Qureshi of the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS), Pakistani journalist and human rights activist Sanna Ejaz recently claimed that the Pakistan Army has transformed the country into a prison state, with public discourse and political participation being stifled and controlled by the security agencies, IFFRAS reported.
Ejaz described the pressure placed upon private actors by the military-state nexus and the ongoing attempts of the Pakistani elite to impose an Urdu-centric view of Pakistan, despite the incredible diversity in the country. In 2018, Ejaz was fired from her job as a news anchor at the Peshawar station of Pakistan