The Future of Punjabi
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was sent to live with a Bedouin family soon after his birth; Bedouins were thought to be the pure speaker of Arabic language, while people living in urban center of Mecca were considered too cosmopolitan, and it was felt that language spoken in Mecca was corrupted. It is astonishing how much the [...]
Justice Rukhsana Ahmed > Renewed Faith in Judiciary
Justice Rukhsana Ahmed is one of the latest set of ten appointees to the Sindh High Court, Jehan Ara, the super-energetic President of P@SHA, wrote a detailed post about the big day she had with Justice Ms. Rukhsana Ahmed in her new chambers.
Feudal Lord Varyam Faqir goes Free on a Compromise
DailyTimes reports that Waryam Faqir was acquitted of the murder charge of Wali Dad by Additional District and Sessions Judge, Abdul Naeem Memon. It was reported that both the sides (the complainant and the accused) submitted a compromise deed before the court requesting to dispose off the matter in view of out of court [...]
Geo invesitgates Thar Coal Project
Thar Coal is one of the 5th largest coal reserve in the world having a total reserve of 850 Tillion cubic fee which can possibly enable us to produce enough electricity to power the entire country of Pakistan with for the next 40-50 years if not more. The reserves are so massive that it [...]
Women threatened for Disrespecting the Quran – Sanghar, Sindh
It is as if the news regarding the misuse of Blasphemy Law will never stop. Lala Hassan an activist of the Peoples Resistance movement in Karachi narrated an incident about a woman being wrongly accused of disrespecting the Quran in Sanghar District of Sindh. Considering the ruthlessness of a raging mob, it could [...]
Sindh Assembly honors Michael Jackson with a Minute of Silence
As I write this blog post I have been at a loss of words, I was shocked to read at the PKKH website that today [Saturday 27th June] the Sindh Assembly kicked off its session with a minutes silence in honor of Michael Jackson, yes you read that one correct ‘the moonwalking maestro – Jacko’ [...]
Khashkelis Feudalism Issue at a standstill
Have been silent about the many developments that have been taking place with regard to the regularization and restoration of the village to the Khaskelis as they were so confident of “winning” this final round — because one of their own representatives whom they trust implicitly (and who has since become a minister without portfolio) [...]
Varyaam Faqeer on the Run – A victory for Essa Mohd Khaskheli
Another report on the Feudal LandGrabbing issue in the village of Essa Mohd Khaskheli – written by Deneb Sadeque
There was certainly a lot of excitement Thursday in the City Court specially for the Khaskhelis. Some of what I’m narrating was joyously described by them when I went to see them this evening. Despite the escape [...]
Court hearing of the Kashkheli Case – Varyaam Faqeer escapes
Posted by Adaner Usmani on the Peoples’ Resistance network
If 16th March 2009 marks the victory of Pakistan’s two-year movement to restore a free judiciary (and depose a dictatorship, of course), posterity might very well regard yesterday, the 7th of May, as a day that some of Pakistan’s poorest first reaped the direct rewards of that [...]
Protest Demo Against the Feudalism in Khaskheli
Today 28 April a protest demonstration was held against Sanghars influential feudal lord Waryam Faqeer by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) Karachi. JAC is a compilations of many civil society organizations, LPP, AP, PILER, HRCP. Shirkat Gah, Aurat Foundation, Takleeq Foundation, etc. The protesters demonstrated for arrest of feudal Waryam Faqeer and appealed [...]
The Arithmetics of 6760 documented Ghost Schools in Sindh
Mr. Naeem Sadiq a very active member of the Peoples Resistance had only recently stumbled across a very extensive study carried out by the Sindh Education and Literacy Department under the School Rehabilitation Program 2008-2009 with the backing of a number of international donor agencies. To produce a report for the thousands of ghost [...]
Another update on the peasants Land-Grabbing case & Hunger Strike
From the Peoples Resistance Mailing List
About the peasants from Sanghar outside the Karachi Press Club for whom I had requested food, we have a temporary respite. The politicians and police made their appearance only after the damage was done — when the elder died and the Labour Party came en masse on the peasants behalf [...]
Protest for the villagers from Muhammad Essa Khaskeli | Pictures
Shared via the Peoples Resistance Mailing List
As some of you likely know already, today proved a very dramatic day in the case of the farmers from Muhammad Essa Khaskeli, who had been protesting for three long weeks in front of the Karachi Press Club.
Labor Party Pakistan, in conjunction with the villagers, had announced a protest [...]
Victims of Feudalism on Hungerstrike – 18-days [and counting]
Posted via the Peoples Resistance Network
Day and night for the past eighteen days, anywhere from a dozen to two dozen farmers from a village in Sanghar have been gathered outside the Karachi Press Club, protesting the violent excesses of a neighboring feudal who has been eyeing their land–his name is Varyaam Faqeer, an ex-MPA (PML-F) [...]
Fake Housing Scheme revealed “Shaheed Pinky Housing Society”
Yesterday the Sindh Assembly erupted with a very unique controversy when a PPP MPA from Nawabshah Tariq Masood Arain accused one ‘Bahawal Zardari’ for occupying over 100 acres of land and launching a housing society in the name of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto “Shaheed Pinky Housing Society” ‘pinky’ was a nick name used for BB’s by [...]
