Two ‘floods’ devastate working people and poor
By Khalid Bhatti 16/09/2010 Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty The people of Pakistan are facing two floods at the same time. One is partly a natural…
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By Khalid Bhatti 16/09/2010 Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty The people of Pakistan are facing two floods at the same time. One is partly a natural…
By Rukhsana Manzoor 27/08/2010 “Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich Poor women and children are suffering the most in the flood-affected areas of Pakistan. Starvation, water-borne diseases, lack of…
By Khalid Bhatti 14/08/2010 Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most The full economic costs of the devastation caused by the floods- the worst in many years- in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa,…
Military dictatorship fears new round of struggle 15/02/2010 2,000 textile workers stage strike to demand better pay and working condition Around 2000 textile factory workers in Rangoon started sit-in…
By Khalid Bhatti 11/11/2009 No end to the violence Among the maladies that inflict Pakistan at this time, the crisis in Baluchistan is, arguably, the most critical. Some analysts might…
By Khalid Bhatti 28/10/2009 No end to the violence as guerrilla war escalates A recent avalanche of attacks, killing more than 160 people, has opened the flood gates of a…
04/09/2009 Will it make any difference? President Hamid Karzai is likely to emerge victorious from1 the controversial and violence-ridden Afghani presidential elections held on 20 August. The elections were…
By Khalid Bhatti 12/08/2009 In April 2009, the Pakistani government announced that it would carry out military action against Pakistani Taliban militants in the Swat district in the North West Frontier…
By Khalid Bhatti 17/11/2008 The economic tsunami hits the masses hard The Pakistani economy is facing its worst crisis in a decade, with massive trade and budget deficits, plunging foreign…
By Khalid Bhatti 12/11/2008 Workers to shut down oil, gas fields across the country Workers in oil and gas fields have decided to shut down all fields in Pakistan. The…
Rukhsana Manzoor 27/10/2008 Five women shot, wounded and buried alive The grotesque story of five women in the Jaffarabad district of Baluchistan, who were apparently shot, wounded and then buried…
By Khalid Bhatti 23/10/2008 Urgent need of a mass working class party Within a few months of the new government taking power in Pakistan the country has been plunged into…