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“No to terrorism, no to imperialism” No To Hasba Bill! No To NWFP Talibanisation No To NWFP Talibanisation
Battle Lost Despite Heroic Fightback? The Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Limited (PTCL) workers made headlines all across the world throughout the month of June due to their heroic struggle against privatisation of PTCL. Their heroic occupation of PTCL headquarters and a weeklong strike compelled the military government to (…)
Not Properly Dressed to Run In Lahore, for women’s rights
Nine articles on the Delhi to Multan India-Pakistan peace march (23 March - 11 May, 2005) The India-Pakistan peace march continues
The News International, May 19, 2005
Sandeep Pandey
The writer is a prominent social activist based in Lucknow, who led the Indian peace marchers.
The India-Pakistan Peace March from Delhi to Multan is symbolically over, but the Indian (…)Arrested and released for running jointly Arrested for running jointly
Women’s rights activist murdered Women’s rights activist murdered
The Dr. Shazia Case Once again, a Pakistani woman has been subjected to rape and torture. Once again attempts are being made to spare the real culprits. Once again, a woman, traumatized, her life endangered may be forced to leave her country. The woman is Dr. Shazia Khalid.
The Joint Action Committee is deeply (…)On freedoms of expression, association and assembly in Pakistan Report on freedoms in Pakistan
Past, Present and Future of Left Movement in Pakistan The origins
The left movement in Pakistan traces its origins in the Indian communist movement, which, in turn draws its inspiration from the Russian revolutions of 1905 and particularly that of October 1917. Lenin himself developed a great interest in India. And long before Lenin, Karl Marx (…)Trade Unions Movement in Pakistan Pakistan trade union movement is very weak at this time. Only 6% of the total workers are organized in the union movement.
The main trade union organization is Pakistan Workers Confederation. PWC was established in 1995, when 8 major labour federations got together and formed one single (…)Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) Self-presentation taken from PFF’s website.
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The fisherfolk communities of Pakistan, comprising of about 15 millions populace, are among the poorest and most deprived population of the country. Large scale degradation of fish resources, the only livelihood resources of these (…)Cry of the Delta “The standing crops are minus cotton The spinners have gone, the wheels are rotten Today the market place is deserted And my heart like salt has melted” Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindhi Poet
Strong winds greeted us in Ibrahim Hyderi, a coastal village of fisherfolks on the outskirts of (…)Pakistan: How Washington helped create a nuclear ’rogue state’ As proof continues to mount that US President George Bush’s administration systematically lied about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to justify invading the oil-rich Persian Gulf country, it has been revealed that Pakistan, one of Washington’s closest allies, has been (…)
Islamic Fundamentalism in Pakistan Arshad Khan is an educated man with a B.Sc. in botany and zoology. But out to feed his young family in Rawalpindi he now drives a taxi. On a long journey down into the Northwest Frontier he points out geographical, cultural and historical landmarks. He also explains his support for an Islamic (…)
History of the India-Pakistan Conflict History of the India-Pakistan Conflict By Tariq Ahsan, former teacher, Political Science and International Relations, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad ; a freelance writer in Ottawa.
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1947 : Partition & Colonialism
The conflict between India and Pakistan originated as a (…)Rape of the Law: The Hudood Ordinances Will the NCSW’s latest recommendation to repeal the Hudood Ordinances finally put an end to the dreaded law?
Interview - Justice (retd.) Majida Rizvi
The Hudood Ordinances were promulgated in 1979 by Zia-ul-Haq in his drive towards Islamisation. The laws came into focus in the early ’80s (…)Let the Pandora box be opened, land to the tenants Rangers are all out to defeat and crush the uprising of Okara peasantry. Since 1st of May 2003, a virtual siege of 19 revolting villages meant a total cut off from the outside world of over 10,000 tenants of the district. There are reports of continues deaths and spreading of illness due to lack (…)
The Colour Khaki Pakistan’s latest bout of military rule, as castle on the Pentagon’s West Asian chessboard: façade and realities of Musharraf’s dictatorship, and the complicity of clerical opposition to it.
Now each day is fair and balmy,Everywhere you look, the army.Ustad Daman (1959)
On 19 September (…)The Projecting Reduction Strategy Paper in Pakistan PRSP in Pakistan
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