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, by ALI Tariq
The government figures provided the third week after Pakistan’s earthquake are probably a serious underestimate, but they indicate the scale of the catastrophe: 50,000 dead, 74,000 injured and at least 3.3 million—far more than after the tsunami—left homeless, virtually all of them in the (…)
, by Labour Education Foundation (Pakistan)
We are reproducing here the update received by mail from the Labour Education Foundation (LEF) on its relief work, after the earthquake. ESSF is giving its support to this initiative. We hope to publish regular updates on it, as well as on others.
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Here is an update of our relief (…)
, by World Social Forum
A. Imperialism, militarization and armed conflicts in the region and peace movements
i. Peace Initiatives; India- Pakistan, Burma-Thailand, Palestine-Israel, Iraq, Iran-West + US, Afghanistan
ii. Imperialism, Wars, Resistance movement, Militancy, Weapons.
iii. State entrenched violence and (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
I had never seen before such a devastating scene in whole of my life. The city of Bagh in Kashmir was like a real ghost city. On 18th October, we a team of 10 from Labour Relief Campaign and newly formed Citizen Relief Committee Lahore visited the city with some local volunteers.
There were no (…)
, by SULERI Abid Qaiyum
Rather than focussing on post-crisis relief and rescue alone, Pakistan needs to evolve an integrated disaster preparedness and management system with focus on hunger reduction and investment in human beings.
“What was the worst form of poverty that you ever experienced?” About 20 of us (…)
, by HOODBHOY Pervez
From under the rubble of collapsed buildings, a gut-wrenching smell of decaying corpses now fills the town. The rats have it good; the one I accidentally stepped upon was already fat. If there is indeed a plan to clear the concrete rubble in and around the town, nobody seems to have any clue. (…)
, by Jubilee South
We express our deep sympathy and solidarity with the people of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan hit by the 7.2-magnitude quake of October 8. The earthquake resulted in deaths already estimated at 75,000 - 80,000, and inflicted unimaginable damage to communities, livelihoods and the environment. (…)
, by ALI Tariq, SULEHRIA Farooq
October 13-Death toll may cross hundred thousand according to accounts I have got from LPP comradees in the area while a newspaper report fears the same number. Report is given below. LPP relief camp has dipatched two trucks and plans another tomorrow (Thursday). Tariq Ali, presently in (…)
, by ATTA Rizwan
12 Oct. This morning, it was the first truck load of relief goods that reached Paniolla, a small town about 12 km from Rawalakot in Pakistani held Kashmir. Hundreds of desperate people gathered around the truck and some people even tried to snatch things. For them, it was very late as earthquake (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Lahore,
The scale of the disaster has traumatised the entire country - or perhaps not quite. Here in Lahore a group of people collecting funds for earthquake relief were apprehended and charged. They were amassing money for themselves. Even in the midst of devastation, life goes on. The global (…)
, by ATTA Rizwan
The government on Sunday (October 9) confirmed the death of over 19,000 people after a massive earthquake hit Pakistan and Kashmir on October8 but unofficial estimates put the death toll to over 40,000.
The worst-affected city is Muzzaffarbad, the capital of Pakistani Occupied Kashmir, where (…)
, by Labour Education Foundation (Pakistan)
Dear Friends,
A strong earthquake, the most powerful in 100 years, hit Pakistan yesterday at 8:52 am. More than 20,000 deaths and around 50,000 injured are reported so far, toll may rise to thousands more. Due to the destruction of communication means and bad weather, actual figures are not (…)
, by Anti-Privatization Alliance (Lahore)
Anti Privatization Alliance Lahore will hold a demonstration against price hike of Oil prices on 12th October 2006. The decision was taken in a meeting of APA on 4th October held in Lahore. Chaired by Manzoor Gilani, joint secretary Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) the meeting was (…)
, by KHAN Aamer Ahmed
The attack on an Ahmadiyya place of worship has taken most Pakistani observers by surprise - there was no build up to it as is the case in most instances of sectarian violence.
The Friday attack followed a long period of relative peace for the Ahmadis through most of the 1990s, despite (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
“In an imperfect society, a healthy man seems sick and a sick one healthy”. Naguib Mahfouz
General Pervez Musharraf’s non-stop vitriolic on innocent, unfortunate rape victims is not merely unbecoming but absurd too. More absurd, in fact, than unbecoming. Blaming Dr Shazia for damaging (…)
, by CROSSETT Barbara
Of all the violent political deaths in the twentieth century, none with such great interest to the United States has been more clouded than the mysterious air crash that killed President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan in 1988, a tragedy that also claimed the life of a serving American (…)
, by MEHDI Feroz
One of the venues of the first ever polycentric World Social Forum will be Karachi. Caracas and Bamako will be the other two venues to host the Forum simultaneously between January 24 and 29, 2006. In Asia, Sri Lankan groups did not ask for it, Bangladesh initially proposed to host the forum but (…)
, by PFF
KARACHI : Hundreds of fishermen at the “Fisher people’s Assembly” Wednesday demanded the government to provide basic facilities to fishing villages of the coastal areas.
The “Fisher people’s Assembly,” organized by Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) in collaboration with ActionAid Pakistan (…)
, by AHMAD Riaz
PTCL anti-privatisation struggle
, by NWFP Assembly
The NWFP Assembly on July 14 passed the controversial Hasba Bill amid uproar and desk thumping by the opposition members and full-throated slogans of “Allah-o-Akbar” (God is Greatest) by the treasury members.
A coalition of six fundamentalist parties MMA managed to form (…)
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