Islamabad, Sept 17: The Awami Workers Party senior leader Ghulam Dastagir Mahboob has urged the party leadership and cadre to live up to the ideals, remain committed to the cause of the working class, and build the party at the grassroots level. “We won’t be able to earn the trust of the people and mobilise…
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…
KARACHI, Sept 16: A huge public meeting was held at Kathor Village on the outskirts of Karachi on Saturday against the demolition of ancient villages and settlements and displacement of indigenous people from their ancestral lands by land grabbers, and real estate mafia. Speakers criticized the Sindh government and the Karachi administration for their inaction against…
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, Aug 27: The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has slammed the recently announced US policy for Afghanistan and South Asia as an extension of imperialism, asserting that there is nothing ‘new’ about it, steeped as it is in the deeply entrenched interests of the American military establishment. “Trump’s announcement is in-fact reinforcing US war-centric foreign…
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore on Saturday acquitted Awami Workers Party (AWP) senior leader Ghulam Dastagir Mehboob and nine peasants of a murder case. “The prosecution has failed to prove charges against the accused,” ATC judge Choudhry Muhammad Ilyas said in his short order. The ATC judge acquitted Ghulam Dastagir Mahboob and nine other…
Islamabad, June 23(PR): The Awami Workers Party (AWP) expresses grief over the loss of precious lives in terrorist attacks in Parachinar and Quetta. At least 40 people including seven policemen perished and over a hundred wounded in the twin bomb blasts in Parachinar and Quetta separately on Friday. The AWP expresses sympathies with the families…
Islamabad (PR) June 15: The Awami Workers Party’s longstanding demand for land reforms echoed in the corridors of parliament on Thursday bringing the issue to the limelight after gathering dust in the superior judiciary. Veteran socialist politician and constitutional expert Abid Hassan Minto received applaud and appreciation from the legislators for his untiring battle against…
The Supreme Appellate Court (SAC) Gilgit-Baltistan on Thursday adjourned the hearing of the review petition of Comrade Baba Jan against his conviction. The court adjourned the hearing on the request of the advocate general of GB who was not prepared to make arguments on the case. The next hearing is likely to be held in…
Islamabad, May 20: The Awami Workers continues to expand its organisational presence throughout the country and abroad through its persistent struggle for the rights of the working class. As part of this struggle, the party formed its unit in Chiniot, one of the important commercial and industrial cities of Punjab. A number of activists joined the…
