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ON Sept 24, 2020, the Indian parliament enacted three laws: Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020, Farmers (Empowerment & Protection) Assurance and Farm Service Act 2020, and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020. Although the government’s rationale (...)
LAHORE: The city’s smog levels reached extremely high levels on Friday, as had been forecast.
A reading of 506 AQI was recorded at 2pm. The Met department said that visibility was so bad that the minimum reading was 600 metres only, while maximum visibility was 1,200 metres, whereas in normal (...)
TOBA TEK SINGH: The district administration with the help of a heavy contingent of police retrieved 125 acres out of 800 acres agriculture land at Chak 405-JB, 64 years after it was illegally occupied.
About 800 acres state land was fraudulently registered in the name of the late Noor Muhammad (...)
As soon as a farmer in central Punjab would set fire to the remnants of his harvested rice crop, government officials sitting in their offices became aware of it. With the help of modern technology, they reached that farmer in less than an hour and initiated government action against him.
In (...)
LAHORE: Calls for action against police grew louder a couple of days after a grower from Burewala was killed allegedly by law enforcers during the protest at Thokar Niaz Baig.
Insisting that one of their protesting colleagues had died due to torture and use of contaminated water by the police, (...)
LAHORE: Protesting farmers and the Punjab government agreed to come to negotiating table after the former were baton-charged and arrested by police when they reached The Mall here on Wednesday and tried to block the road for traffic.
“We decided to postpone our protest and go for talks when the (...)
LAHORE: “When noted rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir and Advocate Abid Saqi came out of Sahiwal’s high-security jail after meeting Mehr Abdul Sattar in September 2017, out of curiosity I asked what Sattar said about the ill-treatment he is being meted out. Asma eulogised his bravery, (...)
MUCH has been said over the past few weeks about wheat shortage and imports to ensure regular supplies and fair prices but little attention has been paid to the poor state of agriculture, where the root of the problem lies, or the plight of the people who depend upon it.
According to the (...)
Pakistan Kissan Rabta Committee vows to fight for land reforms and welfare of small farmers and rural worker; provide alternatives to convention farming in Pakistan.
The Pakistan Kissan Rabta Committee (PKRC) on Sunday vowed to lead the fight against conventional farming practice advocated by (...)
A very unfortunate incident at Okara Military Farms.
Last night, some unknown people went to the graveyard of Christian community belonging to Chack 4/4/10, to vandalise their graveyard, they broke the Cross sign from the graves,
Today, hundreds of Cristian and Muslim tenants from Okara (...)
Release Mehar Abdul Sattar, Baba Jan and other peasant leaders and withdraw false charges against peasant leaders.
Pay fair compensation to those farmers whose crops damaged by rain and thunderstorms.
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee seminar on international day of peasants in Lahore. (...)
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has demanded a fair compensation to Kartarpur Border area farmers. A five members fact finding mission issued its recommendations printed by Daily Dawn Lahore today,
The Mission recommended that no involuntary resettlement occurred without a systematic (...)
Written for the “International Conference on Food Sovereignty and Peasants’ Rights”, 10/12 March 2019, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Land distribution in Pakistan is highly unequal as five percent large landholders possess 64 percent of total farm land and 65 percent small farmers hold 15 percent of such (...)
.‘We don’t own Okara Military farms,’ Pak army tells NCHR. The AMP representatives have told the NCHR that they do not owe share cropping rent to the Okara military administration since it does not own it.
In a hearing before the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) on December 31, the (...)
Today Supreme Court Lahore registry ordered to release Malik Salim Jhakar, a tenant leader of Anjman Mozareen Punjab, on bail. He was falsely inducted in a robbery case last year in November. For three days, the case was argued at the Supreme Court by our advocate Azam Nazir Tarrer on the (...)
Large swathes of Pakistan are in the stranglehold of caricatured feudalism. These feudal relations are increasingly penetrated by finance capital as it imposes itself on social relations, politics and the economy itself. It has made the lives of millions miserable, deepening and brutalizing (...)
• Retired army officers hired in Okara destroyed maize crops of Okara Tenants
• Depriving peasants of livelihood would not to be tolerated
• Register FIR against thuggish retired army officers; Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee
Lahore
Taking note of the blatant violation of tenant farmers’ (...)
Remove chains, stop inhuman treatment of Megar Abdul Sattar, Supreme Court Pakistan
Mehar Abdul Sattar is general secretary of Anjman Mozareen Punjab and also Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, a peasant leader demanding land rights at Okara Military Farms. He is in jail since April 2016, 36 (...)
Lahore
Press Release
Dozens of policemen from the Qilla Gujjar Singh police station, including DSP Ghulam Dastgir, forcibly shut down a protest organized by the Pakistan Kisan Rabta Committee (PKRC) to demand the release of arrested leaders of the Anjuman-i-Mazareen Punjab (AMP) on Wednesday. (...)
The major rural struggles in the country including the AMP and the Hashtnagar Kissan Tehreek in Charsadda, draw great inspiration from the Sindh Hari Committee — a social movement that began a few years before the partition of the subcontinent but which eventually became a political movement. In (...)
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