On friday police deployment in Lahore and elsewhere attempted to stifle a protest by women from Okara’s restive military farms. Reports from activists and journalists on the ground suggested 50 Anjuman-i-Mazareen Punjab members were arrested and whisked away in the build-up. These arrests are the latest in a series of steps taken by various government and military institutions to short-circuit a vibrant tenants’ movement for land rights in central Punjab
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