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The marriage of cotton and South Asia dates back to 6000 BC. The great Indus Valley Civilization spread from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India, and it is here that cotton was spun for the first time. Mehergarh, or modern-day Pakistan, was an arid plain where the (...)
LAHORE: Many farmers and members of civil society demonstrated near Charing Cross on The Mall to call on the government to declare a climate emergency in order to address the climate crisis.
Locals of Khuda ki Basti, and students from various city-based educational institutions were also (...)
Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stop property giant Bahria Town building on indigenous land they say was taken with force
Muhammad Anwar was not aware of any danger when he took the day off work to join his friends at a demonstration on a construction site of a powerful (...)
MUZAFFARGARH: A good number of farmers gathered outside the Tandliawala Sugar Mills on Monday and Tuesday and locked the main gate over non-payment of sugarcane due for the last three months.
On Monday, farmers also held a sit-in outside the gate and slept there overnight in protest while (...)
Introduction of Crofter Foundation:
Crofter Foundation is registered social organisation founded in 2017 and working for peasants and small-scale farmers working to:
(i) improve rural income and livelihoods of small-scale farmers;
(ii) improve household food and nutrition security and (...)
Farmers in Pakistani Punjab plan to take to the streets next month, hoping to generate some of the noise that their Indian counterparts have created.
As India’s protesting farmers remain camped outside New Delhi, four months into their demonstration against the three agriculture laws passed (...)
ON Sept 24, 2020, the Indian parliament enacted three laws: Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020, Farmers (Empowerment & Protection) Assurance and Farm Service Act 2020, and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020. Although the government’s rationale (...)
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on February 10th, 2021 to protest against the decision of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to start the registration process for granting intellectual property (...)
LAHORE: The city’s smog levels reached extremely high levels on Friday, as had been forecast.
A reading of 506 AQI was recorded at 2pm. The Met department said that visibility was so bad that the minimum reading was 600 metres only, while maximum visibility was 1,200 metres, whereas in (...)
TOBA TEK SINGH: The district administration with the help of a heavy contingent of police retrieved 125 acres out of 800 acres agriculture land at Chak 405-JB, 64 years after it was illegally occupied.
About 800 acres state land was fraudulently registered in the name of the late Noor (...)
As soon as a farmer in central Punjab would set fire to the remnants of his harvested rice crop, government officials sitting in their offices became aware of it. With the help of modern technology, they reached that farmer in less than an hour and initiated government action against him. (...)
LAHORE: Calls for action against police grew louder a couple of days after a grower from Burewala was killed allegedly by law enforcers during the protest at Thokar Niaz Baig.
Insisting that one of their protesting colleagues had died due to torture and use of contaminated water by the (...)
LAHORE: Protesting farmers and the Punjab government agreed to come to negotiating table after the former were baton-charged and arrested by police when they reached The Mall here on Wednesday and tried to block the road for traffic.
“We decided to postpone our protest and go for talks when (...)
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, (...)
MUCH has been said over the past few weeks about wheat shortage and imports to ensure regular supplies and fair prices but little attention has been paid to the poor state of agriculture, where the root of the problem lies, or the plight of the people who depend upon it.
According to the (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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