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, by SHAH Shahid, The News (Pakistan)
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=37946 By our correspondent KARACHI: Sindh’s nationalist and democratic parties have appealed to the people of the province to observe a complete shutter-down strike on January 10 (Wednesday) to record their protest against the “federal (…)
, by Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee - PKRC
This an update from the November 28, 2006 All Pakistan Kissan Conference on 4th February 2007, already posted on ESSF website.
The preprations for the Peasant conference in Lahore are going on. A consultative meetings of civil society organizations, trade unions, peasant organizations and (…)
, by Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee - PKRC
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee methere in Baghla Gogera, Okara district on 26th November. Over 70 representative of different peasant organisations attended the meeting. The meeting was helt at a festival called Punjabi Lok Booliu Mela organised by Punjab Lok Sujag. The peasant meeting (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
KARACHI, Nov 16: The leader of the Opposition in Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani, has claimed that the decision taken by the federal government and its agencies to give away two islands located off Port Qasim to a Dubai-based real estate developer, Emaar, is illegal and in violation of the task (…)
, by SANGHUR Aziz
KARACHI: More than 2,000 fishermen on 300 fishing boats participated in a boat rally Sunday to protest the allotment of twin islands to a Dubai-based company.
The fishermen, supported by political parties and NGOs, started the rally from Ibrahim Haidery. They were chanting slogans and carrying (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan), KAKAKHEL Ijaz
By Our Reporter
Dawn
http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/08/nat4.htm
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Civil society organisations have warned the government against going ahead with the proposed Diamond Bar Island City Project, saying any such initiative would face tough resistance, particularly from the 500,000 (…)
, by MEMON Naseer, MUSTAFA Zubeida
A CITY FOR THE RICH
by Zubeida Mustafa
“WHEN the Diamond City comes up on Bundal (Bhundaarh in Sindhi) island all the rich of Karachi will move in there and the poor will be left behind. We will then not even get drinking water,” observes Ahmad (not his real name) with profound wisdom. (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan), PFF, SHAH Shahid, The News International
Seven articles and a letter on the sale of the two islands and against the privatising of the beachfront.
The idea of “New city of international standards”
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
October 2, 2006 Recently federal government has made a contract with UAE based construction firm (…)
, by DAS John Thakur, HUSSAIN Zahid
Pakistan Observer, September 4, 2006 John Thakur Das
http://pakobserver.net/200609/04/news/karachi01.asp?txt=Export%20of%20fish,%20honey,%20crops%20badly%20affected%20in%20Indus%20Delta FLOWING from the Tibetan Plateau to the Arabian Sea the Indus River is the country’s primary source of (…)
, by KIANI Khaleeq
ISLAMABAD, July 21: The Punjab government, on the instructions of the centre, is all set to acquire by force about 1,200 acres of prime agricultural land in the Sheikhupura district at a much lower than the market price for a Mercedes-Benz assembly plant by a locally-registered but hitherto (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan), Movements (Pakistan)
Action against Sindhi fisherfolk condemned By Our Reporter
http://dawn.com/2006/06/22/nat15.htm
ISLAMABAD, June 21: Different non-governmental organisations on Wednesday condemned the violent police action against Sindhi fisherfolk in Karachi and demanded action against the officials that (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, June 19: Police fired blank shots and teargas shells to disperse fishermen who had converged on Toll Plaza, Super Highway and National Highway to enter the city with intention to take part in a rally organised by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) on (…)
, by AHRC
AS-137-2006
Fifty-nine years since independence, the people of Pakistan are yet to experience true democracy and the rule of law. The Provincial Governors of Pakistan and their governments exploit the opportunity of lawlessness by awarding financial as well as other privileges to the people of (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Tufail Cheema was second in line who was killed by the state forces in year 2002 at Probanbad military farms in Depalpur area of Punjab. He was a local leader of Anjaman Mozareen Punjab (Tennants Association of Punjab, the peasant organisation fighting against the military farms administraion (…)
, by PFF, SHAH Mohammad Ali
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum once again is running social movement against contract system. In connection this, PFF has decided to send the petition against contract system on inland fisheries to Pervaiz Musharraf president of Pakistan. Please support and endorse the petition. And send back to (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, May 24: A large number of women members of fishermen community from various parts of Sindh, including Karachi, staged a peaceful rally at the Karachi Fish Harbour demanding construction of a separate jetty for small fishermen.
They assembled at the harbour at (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
By A Correspondent
MULTAN, May 5: Farmers belonging to various parts of South Punjab staged a rally here on Friday to protest against what they described as the anti-grower policies of the government.
The rally was organised by the component organisations of the Sustainable Agriculture (…)
, by Save Indus Delta Action Committee
The community organizations, civil society activists, researchers and experts of Coastal Sindh (Indus Delta) have rejected the Asian Development Bank Sindh Coastal & Inland Community Development Project document and constituted ‘ Save Indus Delta Action Committee’ to launch struggle against (…)
, by Daily Times (Pakistan), PFF
We are posting below two documents: a message forwarded from People’s Rights Movement and a staff report from the Daily Times (Lahore).
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Message forwarded from People’s Rigths Movement
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum Seminar Disrupted
· A seminar on ‘Below Kotri water flows’ was (…)
, by PFF
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum [PFF] a representative organization of fishing community of Pakistan organized a Fishermen’s Convention against contract system in fisheries and occupation of the fishing grounds by some influential landlords and contractors.
The convention was held on the banks of (…)
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