Pakistani and Indian civil society organizations have demanded immediate release of about 900 fishermen languishing in Indian and Pakistani jails and urged the two governments to stop indiscriminate arrests of poor fishermen in future.
Pakistani and Indian civil society organizations have demanded immediate release of about 900 fishermen languishing in Indian and Pakistani jails and urged the two governments to stop indiscriminate arrests of poor fishermen in future.
how the Taliban and other militant groups here, though small and often unpopular minorities, retain their hold over large portions of Pakistani society.
Kanu Sanyal, the man who created the term naxalism and gave this extremist form of communism a permanent place in Indian history, took his own life on March 23 [2010] by hanging himself at his residence in Hatighisa village near Naxalbari – from where his peasant revolution originated.
Is there not an eerie resemblance between the current goings-on in West Bengal and the grisly events that took place there exactly four decades ago? The dramatis personae are the same: the Right, represented by the Congress ruling at the Centre, the Left, euphemism for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the ultra-Left, identified as Naxalites in the early 1970s and now passing as Maoists. It is as if the intervening 40 years are irrelevant, the drama enacted then is having a rerun; some roles have, however, been extraordinarily reversed.
Some 300 people from across South Asia from social movements, civil society organisations, labour unions, peasant organisations, women’s groups, ecologists and human rights activists gathered in New Delhi from 20th April to 23rd April, 2010 as part of the process of a ’Peoples SAARC’ to forge a vision for a union of South Asian peoples’. Among the participants 120 people came from Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
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