AWP vows to emerge as a genuine alternative force
By News Desk The Awami Workers’ Party (AWP) is committed to becoming a genuine alternative force by uniting all Left-wing,
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HKP: New Left party to strive for labourers’ rights
Haqooq-e-Khalq Party presents a charter of demand including Rs40,000 minimum wage for labourers; it will field labourers as its candidates in the local government and general elections.
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Call for declaring mental health emergency in GB
Participants of Ghizer Youth Maraka blast successive governments for their failure and apathy in addressing the issue
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Women’s role in ecosystem restoration
by Ali Rehmat Shimshali Have you ever imagined progress of a society, or a nation without women? To answer this
Read MoreWhat’s fueling Chitral’s high rate of suicide cases?
For years, suicide cases in Chitral and Gilgit Baltistan have been haunting the mountain communities, but a fresh wave of suicides has left them baffled. Ahmad Faraz sheds light on the issue with a nuanced understanding of the local milieu.
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Moot stresses need to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene
By Shahana Tabassum To ensure wellbeing of women and girls in society, it is important to create awareness about menstrual
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Protestors march against govt’s ‘neo-liberal policies’
By News Desk A large number of working class people, katchi abadi residents, students, trade union activists and progressive political
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What the worker says
By Dr. Naazir Mahmood The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) is an area where one would expect much better labour laws
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Suicide: the never-ending pandemic in GBC
By Rozina Parveen When the horrors of life outway the terrors of death a man commits suicide — Albert Camus
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Four budgets
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It is budget season. But the budget that will garner all the attention is, frankly, much
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An obituary: Aamir Liaquat departs
By Rizwan K. Qalandar Aamir Liaquat was an enigma. I saw him live first time showering praises on MQM supremo
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QAU ranked among top 50 varsities in research productivity
By News Desk Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has ranked 41 in research productivity and citations per faculty by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
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Pakistan’s neoliberal state is a machine for plunder
Pakistani neoliberalism hasn’t rolled back state intervention in the economy. Building on a predatory tradition that dates back to British colonial rule, it has used state power to enforce the ruthless exploitation of Pakistan’s workers and natural resources.
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Call for an end to GB’s constitutional deprivation
The mission is especially alarmed by the apparent surge in suicide cases in various parts of GB, particularly in district Ghizer. A large number of these victims comprise women and the mission has reason to believe that some cases of honour killings have been labelled suicide and thus ‘forgotten
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Comrade Thomas Piketty, Welcome to the Socialist Movement
By Eric Blanc It’s a sign of the times that one of the world’s most prominent intellectuals has just published
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