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KARACHI - The People’s Tribunal organised by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) on Tuesday urged the government departments like Fisheries, Irrigation, Wildlife, Tourism and Environment to look into the pouring of highly-contaminated industrial pollution in Keenjhar Lake.

Curfew orders have just been promulgated in our area once again right after our planning meetings with the youth, women, community elders and the Idinthakarai village committee on May 8, 2012. Thousands of police personnel are being posted in and around Koodankulam in haste. We get reliable tips that the authorities are planning to clamp down our protest and arrest all of us, possibly tonight. Such a pre-dawn operation that the government usually does could be bloody as thousands of men, women and children from several villages are sleeping around the Church at Idinthakarai.

It is an honour, comrades and friends, to be given an opportunity to participate as more than an observer in the unfolding histories of JANAM and LEFTWORD, histories that have been rich and complex, and which continue to be inspired by, even as they take forward the legacy of, among others, Safdar Hashmi’s progressive leftwing open-mindedness, non-sectarianism, compassion, boundless energy and creativity.

Police investigation of Sanal Edamaraku for debunking a “miracle” at a church is a crime against the Constitution.

n the Arab Gulf, the treatment of migrant labour – male as well as female – has long been a scandal. Men from the subcontinent often live eight to a room in slums – even in the billionaires’ paradise of Kuwait – and are consistently harassed, treated as third-class citizens, and arrested on the meanest of charges.