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The inflation is still high. Prices of food items and essentials are continued to rise. In last four years the prices of elecricity, gas, petrol, food and other daily use items have more than doubled. Transport fares and rent of the houses have also been hiked. The severe energy crisis has not only crippled the industries and commercial activities but also severly affected the daily life. More than 0.5 million workers have been made unemployed in last two years just in textiles sector due to the energy crisis. More than 560 factories closed down in last three years. The industrialists and businessmen are migrating from the country and shifting their industries and businesses to the other countries of the region. The corruption is striving and black economy is now equivalent  of the real economy. The export is falling and imports are rising. The currency is continued a free fall against dollar and other currencies. The unemployment is rising as both private and public sector hardly generating new jobs. The law and order situation is getting worse by every passing day. Armed robberies, street crimes and kidnapping for the ransom has increased many folds. Crimes against women such as rape, acid throwing, domestic violence and honour killings have also increased.

Trade union movement is very weak and almost collapsed. According to the latest figures only 4% workers are members of the the legal unions. If we include the membership of illegal unions and workers associations than the figure goes up to 9%. The situation in private sector is even more worse. Less than 1% industrial workers are members of the trade unions. In most cases, the registered trade unions in factories and workplaces are pocket unions and only exists in papers. Mostly the close relatives of the factory owners and businessmen are the union leaders. Overwhelming majority of  Trade union leaders  have completely capitulated with the capitalists and state machinery. They are not interested in organizing the struggles and also workers at the workplace. There are hardly any new unions formed in the private sector. The betrayals of the leadership has demoralized the workers. Most of the recent struggles and strikes were organised from the below. The leadership has lost the trust of the workforce. Most of the union leaders are still living in the 1980s when there was the big public sector industries employing thousands of workers in each industry. Now all these industries have been closed down after the privatization and 0.6 million industrial workers lost their jobs in the process. The trade union movement failed to adapt to the new situation which emerged after the privatization in 1990s and 2000s. It is difficult to find young trade union leaders and activists in the movement. The layer of trade union activists continued to shrink over the past many years. The Left as a political identity has collapsed   in the trade union movement. Some left organisations played important role in the ideological confusion of the workers and very important layer of the activists. They convince them to abandon the Socialism and embrace the capitalist ideas. The Left union leaders abandoned the tradition of struggle and capitulated with capitalists. Left still exist in the labour movement but not as a dominating force as it was in 1960s 1970s.

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