Showing posts with label Umair Javed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Umair Javed. Show all posts

Monday, 23 May 2016

Pakistan. Who is allowed to protest (Umair Javed, South Asia Monitor)

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

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=17140