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On behalf of Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), we invite you to participate in a Seminar on ‘Understanding Pakistan Today’ in Delhi at the India International Centre Annex on March 4-5, 2015. The Seminar will bring together more than twenty Senior Pakistani academics and social and political activists and provide an opportunity for participants to engage with the complex dynamics of Pakistan’s contemporary social, economic and political reality which challenges the stereotypical narratives derived from western geo-strategic perspectives and interests.

The poisonous traditional political brew of right-wing xenophobia and nationalist populism is now accepted as the new recipe for socialist solidarity. Where once socialists predictably rejected nationalism as the basis of oppositional politics, we are now admonished merely to upend the right’s reactionary conclusions.

Dear President Maithripala Sirisena, please think of me as your child and release my innocent, very innocent mother. She has not committed any crime. I also humbly request that you release my 3rd brother as well.

प्रगतिशील विचार और सहिष्णुता पर हमला समाज सावधान रहे और चुप ना बैठे, नहीं तो जारी रहेगा सिलसिला

The International Forum for Democracy and Human Rights has published a report written by Geoffrey Robertson QC on the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh.