Defend Pakistani socialist Tariq Mehmood!
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On 9th August 2009, Tariq Mehmood, a human rights activists and general secretary Labour Party Pakistan Toba Tek Singh district, issued a press release to th
Pakistan
Help the refugees! Oppose both Taliban and army!
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This is an appeal by the Labour Relief Campaign launched by the Labour Party Pakistan. The purpose of the appeal to provide immediate help to some of the more than 1.5 million internally displaced people from the Malakand Division of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan.,
Support Pakistan’s labour movement against both Taliban and army!
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More than 800,000 people have now fled fighting in the Swat district of Pakistan. They join a total of around 1.3 million refugees who have fled recent fighting in other parts of the North-West Frontier Province, fleeing, on the one hand threats of violence from the Taliban against people who do not join their “jihad”, and on the other the gunship helicopters of Pakistan’s army.
Pakistan: “Unite those opposing both Taliban and military”
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The Swat situation is complicated. Both sides, the religious fanatics and the government are trying different tactics and are not sure which one will work. The prices for their blunders is paid by ordinary people of the area.
The Taliban settled in Swat long ago and were integrated in the area.
Pakistani socialists calls for working class to organise against both Taliban and Pakistani government
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In its May Day message, the Labour Party of Pakistan says: "On May Day 2009, the Pakistani working class has an additional but most vital issue of the growth of religious fundamentalism.
Who boosted the Taliban?
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The Taliban’s take-over of the scenic Swat valley in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province is a damning indictment of over six decades of military and “civilian” bourgeois rule in Pakistan.
Pakistan cricket massacre: Why police were “too busy”
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Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, comments on the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team on 3 March.
Pakistan under the PPP
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Faryal Velmi visted Karachi, Pakistan in December 2008.
No to war on Pakistan!
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Mainstream politicians in India have been claiming that it's basically Pakistan behind it. There’s an escalation of tension, very much in line with the usual thing — whenever there's anything like this, the blame is focused on Pakistan as the main enemy.
India: history, politics, terror
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India has a population of 1.1 billion, reckoned to be 80% Hindu, 14% Muslim, and the rest Christian, Sikh, and others. Since independence from Britain in 1947, Indian politics has mostly been dominated by the avowedly secular Congress party, now in government; but the last decade or more has seen the rise of the Hindu-chauvinist BJP, based mainly on upper-caste Hindus, and linked to openly-fascistic Hindu militias. The BJP led governments in 1996 and 1998-2004.