Awami Workers Party (AWP) has rejected the recently imposed GB Order 2018 by Islamabad on Gilgit-Baltistan and considers it a move to strengthen its grip on the region and perpetuate the seventy-year colonial rule to usurp its natural resources. The party in its two-day Federal Executive Committee meeting held recently at its head offices at…
Saleha Athar CANADA: Progressive figures from South Asian Diaspora and Canada paid tributes to Karl Marx, the greatest thinker, social scientist and discussed the history and achievements of his ideology and challenges in today’s world. The event was organized to celebrate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx as well as International Labour Day on May…
KARACHI, April 21 (PR): The Awami Workers Party (AWP) federal general secretary Akhtar Hussain Advocate has condemned the detention of party central President Fanoos Gujjar, deputy general-secretary Ismat Shajehan and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leaders Ali Wazir, Bilal Mandokhel and others by the Punjab police. In response to the arrests of AWP and PTM leadership,…
LAHORE, April 9, 2018: The Awami Workers Party (AWP) reiterates its support to people’s movements for their fundamentals rights and against the retrogressive and exploitative state policies. Pakistan’s ruling class parties and the establishment will no longer be able to protect the outdated crumbling political and economic system or hide their contradictions. The so-called ‘revolutionaries’, and…
Islamabad (Feb 19): The Awami Workers Party expresses solidarity with the people of Khwaza Khela, Swat, who have come out in protest against the humiliating and often violent treatment meted out to them by security forces at check-posts in the region. In a joint press statement, AWP Deputy Secretary Ismat Shahjahan and AWP-Pakhtunkhwa President Shahab…
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has expressed deep concern at the recent wave of religious extremism and resurgence of fascist forces in Pakistan. The party criticised the government and security agencies’ inaction against these regressive forces. The resurgence of the Taliban in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) under the garb of “peace committee” that has…
Islamabad, Sept 16: Residents Alipur Farash held a protest march against lack of facilities and negligence of the civic agency. Organised by the Awami Workers Party Rawalpindi-Islamabad, the protesters largely comprised of women and children, who have been suffering due to the CDA’s negligence in providing basic amenities including sanitation facilities to the ‘Model Urban…
Islamabad, Sept 3: The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has expressed concerned at the humanitarian disaster brewing in Myanmar’s Rakhine region. The AWP President Fanoos Gujjar in a statement on Monday condemned the killings of Rohingya ethnic Muslim minority by Myanmar security forces and torching their villages. He called upon the international human rights organizations, and…
Islamabad, July 31 (PR): Displaced residents of a demolished Katchi Abadi in I-11 Sector, members of the Awami Workers Party (AWP), and representatives of the civil society gathered at the Sabzi mandi, the largest fruit and vegetable market of the twin cities, on Monday, to mark the second anniversary of the destruction of the informal…
PRESS STATEMENT Islamabad, 27th July 2017: The Supreme Court verdict on Panama-Leaks will deepen the political crisis rather than stemming the menace of corruption. The Awami Workers Party (AWP) expresses concern at the disqualification of an elected prime minister by invoking the controversial articles 62 and 63 inserted in the constitution during a military dictator…
