Young Nurses ended six day long protest and sit-in
Government should accept their demands The Young Nurses Association (YNA) ended 6 day long sit-in at Charing Cross the Mall Lahore after negotiating with health authorities. The young nurses were…
Category: South Asia
Teachers ended sit-in after negotiations with government
We will come back if demands not met School teachers ended on Monday their three-day sit-in at the Punjab Assembly in respect of Ramazan. Hundreds of teachers along with their…
Rising inequality between rich and the poor in Pakistan
Free market economy and neoliberal economic policies created huge gulf According to a recent survey conducted by a reputed audit firm exposed the inequality between the earnings of the CEOs of…
Budget 2016-17
Yet another pro- rich budget to accelerate the capitalist growth The budget The PML-N government presented yet another federal budget for fiscal year 2016-17. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented the…
Poverty, dodging the numbers
The number of people living in poverty has increased in last decade Lies more lies and official figures, best describe that how the government manipulate or sometime distort figures to…
Privatization of education
By Khalid Bhatti 22/05/2016 Who will benefit? The planned handover of 5000 public sector schools in Punjab to Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) and different NGOs and protests and sit-in by the…
Punjab teachers protesting against the schools privatisation
By Khalid Bhatti 19/05/2016 Some demands met but privatisation will continue The protesting teachers called off their sit-in and protest at the Chairing Cross in front of the Punjab Assembly…
Now Beginning the Rise of Barelvi Extremism
By Khalid Bhatti 02/05/2015 Rise of Barelvi Extremism Since the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, different religious-political groups belonging to the Barelvi school of…
The Politics of Corruption and Accountability
By Khalid Bhatti 29/04/2016 Pakistan is among the few countries in the world where everybody wants to make others accountable and answerable but when others raise question about the same…
Panama Leaks
A storm in the tea cup or beginning of the end? The Nawaz government is in the middle of another political storm. The present political crisis triggered by the Panama…
PIA Strike Continues Despite State Repression
Four workers killed, eight injured as security forces open fire on PIA protesting workers An all-out strike continued at the state-owned national air lines PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) for the…
The Slave Conditions of Domestic Child Workers
Poverty, misery, abuse and death In recent weeks, the death of five girl child domestic workers once again highlights the menace of rampant violence and abuse against the child domestic…