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, by TARIQ Farooq
Dear all,
Please find enclosed some pictures [not reproduced here] of the demonstration and rally of Anjaman Mozareen Punjab on the eve on International day of peasants. Over a thousand peasant were able to reach Lahore from different districts of Punjab despite all the efforts of police to (…)
, by KHASKHELI Jan
Dear Friends, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) will host the General Assembly of World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP) in Pakistan November 2010. regards
saeed
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WFFP general assembly to discuss issues of fishermen community
Monday, February 01, 2010 (…)
, by KHALIQ Bushra
On 10th January 2010, Anjumn Mazareen Punjab (AMP) (Punjab Tenants Organization) organized a public meeting in Renala Kurd, 100 km from Lahore, to commemorate the 8th death anniversary of Muhammad Basher Ahmad Shaheed, the first martyr among 11 of the movement. He was killed by Rangers in 2002. (…)
, by Correspondent(s), Dawn (Pakistan)
By Our Correspondent
Wednesday, 18 Nov, 2009
THATTA, Nov 17: Activists of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) took out a rally on Tuesday to draw the attention of higher authorities towards the plight of 55 fishermen languishing in Indian jails. The imprisoned men belong to three coastal (…)
, by KHASKHELI Jan
Saturday, October 31, 2009 By Jan Khaskheli Karachi
The alarming decline in fish catch along the 129-kilometre-long coastal area of Karachi has affected the livelihood of about 80,000 people who are directly involved in fishing.
Shafi Mohammed, a fisherman from Salehabad Island in Keamari, (…)
, by Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee - PKRC
For the preparation of this seminar, see: Seminar on Food Crisis and Food Sovereignty planed in Lahore
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The Pakistan Kissan (peasant) Rabita Committee in collaboration with South Asia Alliance for Poverty Alleviation and Action Aid Pakistan organized a one-day seminar (…)
, by Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee - PKRC, TARIQ Farooq
Dear all,
The seminar “food crisis and food sovereignty” was postponed on 15 October, the day Lahore was rocked with terrorist attacks. 29 people died in attacks on police training centers and intelligence offices in Lahore on the day. We had to postpone the seminar as many delegates were not (…)
, by USMANI Adaner
The Karachi Press Club is an extraordinary place. Teeming – always – with protest, whether miniscule or formidable, hackneyed or genuine, one of the first things one learns is that the space and the contradictions it embodies can be dispiriting and inspiring in equal measure. So it has proved (…)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad, GILLANI Waqar, HASAN DAYAN Ali, IQBAL Nadeem, ISPR, SAHI Aoun, SATTAR Mehar Abdul
Anjaman Mozareen Punjab will organize a massive peasant convention on 6th April 2011 at Kulyana Military Estate Okara in Punjab. This is on the occasion of the second death anniversary of three peasant leaders killed by the gangsters of the Military Farms administration on 6th April 2009.
Amir (…)
, by KHALIQ Abdul
Arab companies rush for corporate farming in Pakistan to lock up scarce water resources in agriculture belts as Federal Government offers one million acres of agriculture land to Arab monarchs, giving way to new corporate feudal system of it own kind.
During the last couple of years the extra (…)
, by AHRC
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-039-2009
8 April 2009
Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that three farmers have been murdered and 27 others injured by a military-sponsored gang, after a (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Another major gathering of peasants in Okara
Thousands of peasants will get together in Kalyana Military Estate Okara on 25 March 2009 in a peasants convention organized by Anjman Mozareen Punjab (AMP). They are demanding the ownership rights of the land they are cultivating over 100 years. (…)
, by ZIA Urooj
Opinions regarding the outcome of the Sindh peasants’ long march for land reforms and amendments in the Sindh Tenancy Act (STA) of 1950 remain divided. Some are celebrating the promise made by Sindh Assembly Deputy Speaker Shehla Raza as a success who said that the suggested amendments would be (…)
, par TARIQ Farooq
Anjman Mozareen Punjab has once again started a campaign for land rights. 68000 acres of land is in possession of Military Farms and Army Welfare Trust. The land is located in Lahore, Okara and Pakpattan district of Punjab. The agricultural land is mainly cultivated by tenants.
The tenants (…)
, by KHASKHELI Jan, KHOSO Abdullah
Karachi: After fresh tension between India and Pakistan following the Mumbai attacks, the release of detained Pakistani fishermen may be delayed further, fear fisherfolk.Pakistan had released 199 Indian fishermen few days back as a good will gesture, expecting the neighbouring country to release (…)
, by SHAH Shahid
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) has accused Karachi Port Trust (KPT) authorities of threatening local fishermen residing in coastal area falling near Shireen Jinnah Colony to vacate the land.
According to the PFF spokesman, the KPT personnel had removed fishing boats from the old jetty, (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, MALIK Adam
Dear All, Regards and this to share that ’Sindh Hari Porhiat Council’ with the support of peasants groups, left political groups, civil society organization has initiated mobilization campaign to create popular demand for ’agrarian / land reforms’ in the country. In this connection a (…)
, by KHASKHELI Jan
Karachi
In a bid to improve both the physical and the management system of the Karachi Fish Harbour (KFH), the federal government has announced that a private company will now be responsible for running the harbour.
Until now, the harbour had been managed by the Karachi Fish Harbour (…)
, by BALOCH Shafi, Dawn (Pakistan)
KARACHI - Despite the passage of several months to abolish the contract system, concerned provincial authorities have failed to introduce a substitute policy for fishing in inland waters, The Nation has learnt here on Tuesday. Local fishermen are still waiting for a policy for fishing in inland (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
HYDERABAD, Sept 1: A convention of fisherwomen demanded on Sunday protection to fishermen from influential feudal lords who had occupied most of the sweet water resources in the province, issuance of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto card for catching fish and release of 35 MAF water into the sea to save (…)
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