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KHOKHROPAR: Hundreds of people, including women, representatives of NGOs, journalists, doctors, advocates, retired judges and notables, from different parts of the country took a peace caravan to the Pakistan-India Khokhrapar-Monabao border on Friday evening.
The caravan was organized under (…)
According to reports, Western relief agencies, including those run by the United Nations and the United States government, have complained of “perceptible harassment by ‘Jihadi elements’ working in the quake hit-areas in Azad Kashmir and the NWFP”. There are some 20,000 workers belonging to (…)
, by MUSTAFA Zubeida
IT IS a pity that science which is the antidote to irrational thinking and obscurantist behaviour is being slowly strangled to death in Pakistan, that is if we presume that it had a modestly glorious existence in the past in this country.
One cannot brush aside the giants this country has (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
It was a rare chance in the recent history of the Left in Pakistan that a party could mobilize so many in a defiant demonstration on 6th December. This was done by Labour Party Pakistan against WTO, privatization and the military regime. The rally was organized in solidarity with the (…)
On Tuesday, the National Assembly rejected a bill proposing amendments to the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance 1979, which requires a rape victim to present four male witnesses to substantiate her claim or be convicted of fornication or adultery and/or face punishment for lying. (…)
, by LPP
Lahore (PR)Thousands of Labour Party Pakistan’s activists demonstrated today (Tuesday) against the imperialist onslaught of privatization and WTO.
The rally participated by trade union activists and political workers, started from Shimla Hill and culminated at Lahore Station all the way from (…)
, by HRCP
LAHORE: The exclusion of quake survivors from decision-making, the concentration of policy planning in military hands, the lack of transparency in distributing aid and the rapidly worsening conditions in all affected areas due to cold weather are matters of grave concern to HRCP.
HRCP has (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Five Doctors and three paramedical staff have started their three days visit to Kashmir from 25th November. They include child specialist, orthopedic, general surgeon, gynecologist and general practitioner. They will have mobile medical camp at Paniola, Rawalakot and Bagh areas of Kashmir. They (…)
, by SULERI Abid Qaiyum
The money pledged by international donors for post-quake rehabilitation and reconstruction seems fine on paper. The devil lies in the fine print.
International donors have pledged some $ 5.4 billion (£ 3.14 billion) in a donors’ conference last week to help Pakistan recover from October’s (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Immediately after the earthquake, it was decided in a meeting of Labour Relief Campaign (LRC) to target an area devastated by earthquake. There was over 22000 kilometers that was badly affected by the earthquake on 8th October 2005.
Paniola district Rawalakot in Kashmir was chosen to (…)
Dear friends A joint meeting of National Steering Committee (NSC) of Pakistan Social Forum and Organizing Committee (OC) of WSF 2006 Karachi was held on November 19, 2005 in Lahore. The meeting was attended by more than 100 members of both NSC and OC. The meeting took a comprehensive stock of (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Dear friends of ESSF,
Thanks for your donation. It arrived on Tuesday. I was not in Lahore. So cold not confirm you earlier.
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We have planned to bring the next relief truck on Tuesday 22nd November, your donation will be spent on buying food, medicine, blankets and warme cloths for (…)
, by SULERI Abid Qaiyum
Apprehensions about the official rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts in the quake-hit areas abound. A comprehensive, participatory and professionally prepared plan for rebuilding may help remove some of them.
Despite the fact that October 8 earthquake is a national tragedy, it is well (…)
, by PFF
First time an alliance of the people directly affected by the diminished flow of fresh river water to the deltaic region of Sindh in the tail end of river Indus was formed with sponsorship of Pakistan Fisher-folk Forum (PFF).
The organization was named as Delta Peoples Alliance (DPA) with (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
Patience fellow Kashmiris. Islamabad is buying six high-tech Saab 2000 jets to help you out. ’Why the heck high-tech jets instead of helicopters if Islamabad has Kashmir in mind?’ fellow Kashmiris might wonder. Because, the Saab 2000 turbo-propelled aircraft will be fitted with a land (…)
, by LPP
Labour Party Pakistan has started building 100 shelter homes for the earthquake affected in area of Paniola, district Rawalakot for the earthquake victims.. Local committees working under the guidance of Citizen Relief Committee Kashmir had done the survey of the area to find out the neediest (…)
, 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 (…)
, by ATTA Rizwan
Although no-one knows the exact figure, the 7.6 magnitude earthquake on October 8 killed an estimated 53,000 people. On October 13, the World Health Organisation’s regional director Hussein Gezairy said the earthquake was a bigger catastrophe than last year’s tsunami in terms of the number of (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Even after 17 days of the most disastrous earth quake in Pakistan, there are areas where no one has yet reached to help the victims. That is mainly true of the Neelum Valley area, close to the so-called Line Of Control that separate Kashmir into Indian and Pakistan held areas. Only helicopters (…)
, by Labour Education Foundation (Pakistan)
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