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Hundreds Rally Worldwide to Demand Freedom for Ehsan Ali and AAC Leaders
On 2 April, hundreds of supporters, students and trade union activists assembled outside Pakistani diplomatic missions across the globe in a coordinated international day of action demanding the immediate release of Ehsan Ali and all other detained leaders of the Awami Action Committee in Gilgit-Baltistan (AAC-GB). The protests were organised against a backdrop of real…
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Pakistan: Ehsan Ali and AAC leaders arrested again
Advocate Ehsan Ali, chairman of the Awami Action Committee (AAC) of Gilgit-Baltistan, was arrested on the night of 10 March after police raided his home in Gilgit. In the days that followed, the homes of several other AAC leaders were raided and four more detained: Nusrat Hussain, Mehboob Wali, Nafees Advocate and Mehar Ali. Two…
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Quetta: Oath-Taking Ceremony of All Balochistan Clerks and Technical Employees Association, Fisheries Unit
The oath-taking ceremony of the All Balochistan Clerks and Technical Employees Association, Fisheries Department Unit, was held with great enthusiasm and energy. The ceremony was attended not only by a large number of employees and workers from the Fisheries Department, but also by leaders of the Balochistan Grand Alliance, including Professor Qudoos Kakar, Ali Asghar…
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Bhakkar: The Crisis Facing Agriculture and the Plight of Farmers
In Pakistan today, ordinary farmers are forced to live in extreme poverty and destitution. Under state patronage, the plunder by fertiliser factory owners, sugar mill cartels, independent power producers (IPPs), large landowners, and middlemen continues unabated. Crops are purchased for a pittance, and farmers are trapped year after year in a vicious cycle of devastating…
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Sindh: How Can the Strike of Government Employees and Workers Be Made Successful?
At present, the economic crisis has intensified across the entire world. This economic crisis is a global organic crisis of the capitalist system, as a result of which the ruling class is bent on implementing measures such as wage cuts, pension reductions, job losses, privatisation of public institutions, downsizing, and forced retirements. These policies have…
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Pakistan: How Can the Workers’ Movement Advance?
In recent years, the working class in Pakistan has faced the worst attacks in the country’s history. The capitalist ruling class and the military-civil state elite, under IMF directives, are transferring the entire burden of the economic crisis onto the working class. New policies amounting to economic slaughter of workers are being introduced on a…
