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LAHORE: “When noted rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir and Advocate Abid Saqi came out of Sahiwal’s high-security jail after meeting Mehr Abdul Sattar in September 2017, out of curiosity I asked what Sattar said about the ill-treatment he is being meted out. Asma eulogised his bravery, (...)
Pakistan Kissan Rabta Committee vows to fight for land reforms and welfare of small farmers and rural worker; provide alternatives to convention farming in Pakistan.
The Pakistan Kissan Rabta Committee (PKRC) on Sunday vowed to lead the fight against conventional farming practice advocated by (...)
A very unfortunate incident at Okara Military Farms.
Last night, some unknown people went to the graveyard of Christian community belonging to Chack 4/4/10, to vandalise their graveyard, they broke the Cross sign from the graves,
Today, hundreds of Cristian and Muslim tenants from Okara (...)
Release Mehar Abdul Sattar, Baba Jan and other peasant leaders and withdraw false charges against peasant leaders.
Pay fair compensation to those farmers whose crops damaged by rain and thunderstorms.
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee seminar on international day of peasants in Lahore. (...)
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has demanded a fair compensation to Kartarpur Border area farmers. A five members fact finding mission issued its recommendations printed by Daily Dawn Lahore today,
The Mission recommended that no involuntary resettlement occurred without a systematic (...)
Written for the “International Conference on Food Sovereignty and Peasants’ Rights”, 10/12 March 2019, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Land distribution in Pakistan is highly unequal as five percent large landholders possess 64 percent of total farm land and 65 percent small farmers hold 15 percent of such (...)
.‘We don’t own Okara Military farms,’ Pak army tells NCHR. The AMP representatives have told the NCHR that they do not owe share cropping rent to the Okara military administration since it does not own it.
In a hearing before the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) on December 31, the (...)
Today Supreme Court Lahore registry ordered to release Malik Salim Jhakar, a tenant leader of Anjman Mozareen Punjab, on bail. He was falsely inducted in a robbery case last year in November. For three days, the case was argued at the Supreme Court by our advocate Azam Nazir Tarrer on the (...)
Large swathes of Pakistan are in the stranglehold of caricatured feudalism. These feudal relations are increasingly penetrated by finance capital as it imposes itself on social relations, politics and the economy itself. It has made the lives of millions miserable, deepening and brutalizing (...)
• Retired army officers hired in Okara destroyed maize crops of Okara Tenants
• Depriving peasants of livelihood would not to be tolerated
• Register FIR against thuggish retired army officers; Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee
Lahore
Taking note of the blatant violation of tenant farmers’ (...)
Remove chains, stop inhuman treatment of Megar Abdul Sattar, Supreme Court Pakistan
Mehar Abdul Sattar is general secretary of Anjman Mozareen Punjab and also Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, a peasant leader demanding land rights at Okara Military Farms. He is in jail since April 2016, 36 (...)
Lahore
Press Release
Dozens of policemen from the Qilla Gujjar Singh police station, including DSP Ghulam Dastgir, forcibly shut down a protest organized by the Pakistan Kisan Rabta Committee (PKRC) to demand the release of arrested leaders of the Anjuman-i-Mazareen Punjab (AMP) on Wednesday. (...)
The major rural struggles in the country including the AMP and the Hashtnagar Kissan Tehreek in Charsadda, draw great inspiration from the Sindh Hari Committee — a social movement that began a few years before the partition of the subcontinent but which eventually became a political movement. In (...)
• The struggle for land rights to continue despite arrests and state repression
• Tenants demanding land are charged with false heinous crimes
• 80 year old tenant escaped arrest after women offered resistance
• 17 April would be celebrated as International Day of Peasants,
• Pakistan Kissan (...)
ALRC-CWS-33-004-2016 29 August 2016
United Nations Human Rights Council – 33rd Regular Session
A Written Submission to the 33rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
PAKISTAN: Peasants continue to face violence by landlords and the Military (...)
The Pakistani state’s black brush being used to paint any dissenting voices as terrorists under the National Action Plan has now been directed towards the ongoing peasants’ movement in the heart of the Punjab province. The enabling conditions in the security framework has allowed the state to (...)
AWP decries attempts to implicate Okara farmers through staged terrorist ‘encounter’
This morning the DPO Okara claimed to have killed six terrorists of a banned organization in an ’encounter’ in Chak 28-R at the Kulyana Military Estate in Okara. The police also claimed that the terrorists were (...)
The resistance of the tenants of Okara Military Farm villages to changes in their contract and to threats of eviction is cause-celebre, particularly for left-leaning activists and intellectuals. This is as it ought to be. There have been various attempts by the authorities to evict residents (...)
The widespread use of exceptional legal and administrative measures to intervene in social conflicts, particularly in the aftermath of the National Action Plan, is radically altering legal and political conceptions of citizenship in Pakistan. While many have considered the legal aspects of this (...)
AMP General Secretary Mehr Abdul Sattar.
Over a century ago, the British government relocated peasants and farmers from what is now Indian Punjab in the east to West Punjab to take care of military farms. The Punjab Board of Revenue leased around 160,000 acres of land to the peasants. (...)
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