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The scars inflicted on September 29, 2012 in Ramu will take a long time to heal. It has been two years now since a number of Buddhist monasteries and houses of Buddhists were razed to the ground in Ramu, Ukhia, Teknaf, and Cox’s Bazar on a night of mayhem on September 29, 2012. This carnage no doubt tarnished the image of Bangladesh both at home and abroad. The events, painful as they were and still are, still rekindled hopes about the kind of country we fought for and long for.

While the revolution is still brewing on Constitution Avenue in Punjab’s kettle, with a spoonful of tea-leaves from Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and the steaming hot water of 7th Avenue, there is another Pakistan awaiting our courtesy. This ‘other’ Pakistan is never going to be, Insha-Allah, the adret anyway for its obvious lack of brusqueness and sonorousness that our very own revolutionaries have. Despite more important issues of a ‘stolen mandate’ at hand, we might still give a perfunctory and gracious look of ours to their unnecessary noise.

The capitalistic and large-scale-industrial economic model and way of life, which have got the upper hand in the whole world, have accelerated a two-fold destruction process: the process of destruction of our natural basis of life and, simultaneously, the process of exclusion of ever larger sections of humanity from the economic and social bases of living. The two processes reinforce each other.

Daily Times
PILER, trade unions to hold ‘Sindh Labour Conference’
Staff Report September 26, 2014
KARACHI: Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) in collaboration with trade unions announced on Thursday, to bring together more than 200 delegates from 19 labour federation, 31 labour union, 12 NGOs and the political parties from the four provinces, in three-days ‘Sindh Labour Conference’ at PILER Centre, Karachi. Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch, Chief Minister (…)