Yet another victim of rape fighting for justice
By Rukhsana Manzoor 20/09/2005 Every day 8 rape cases are reported but for every case reported there are two that go unreported in Pakistan. Two weeks ago ‘The News’, an…
Category: South Asia
Pakistan A State at Crossroads
Nothing has changed under Musharaf When General Musharaf took power in October 1999, after disposing of than Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, he promised to revive the economy, political stability, to…
PTCL Unions Action Committee Betrayed the Workers
PTCL Struggle: Almost all the leaders of action committee have announced to accept the process of privatization on 3rd August in a press conference. They have accepted this privatization in…
TURCP Will Continue its Campaign against Privatization
Trade Union Rights Campaign strongly condemns the Betrayal of Action committee leadership, which has signed the agreement with PTCL management to accept privatization of state owned telecom company PTCL. The…
Safeguards against Flood Ravages
Seminar Report Swair Women Organization with the help of Oxfam organized a seminar at Lahore Press club on 27th July. 140 people attended the seminar; the majority of them were…
120 Trade Union activists attend TURCP meeting in Islamabad
By Khalid Bhatti 26/07/2005 More than 120 trade union activists and leaders of different trade unions attended a meeting organised by Trade Union Rights Campaign in the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited…
The struggle against privatisation of Pakistan Telecoms
For over 6 weeks, 65 000 telecommunication workers were involved in a bitter struggle against the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) and the government in an attempt to defeat the…
Local Government Elections, General’s Democracy Flourishing
General Musharaf has been able to conduct the second non party local government elections in his six year rule. The election results are not shocking for all those who know…
Pakistan Telecommunications Headquarters Reoccupied
In an indication of huge anger at the government serious escalation, 4000 workers have re-occupied the PTCL headquarters. This was a result of the breakdown in negotiations today. These workers…
Telecom strike remains solid as one union leadership betrays struggle
By Khalid Bhatti 16/05/2005 In a shameful betrayal of the struggle against the privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunications (PTCL), the national leaders of the Employees Union, one of the unions in…
Over 300 Telecommunication Workers and Trade Unionists Arrested
Government starts military crackdown as it announces unilateral date for privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunications. Over the weekend the number of telecommunication workers taken into custody by the police has risen…
Government Starts Crackdown against Telecom Trade Unionists
By Khalid Bhatti 11/06/2015 The stakes have been raised sharply in the battle between Pakistan’s telecommunications workers and the Musharraf government over the question of the privatisation of the industry.…