Target Killings: 30 groups join fisherfolk campaign

KARACHI:

Thirty organisations, trade unions and human rights activists have joined the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) to demand the arrest of target killers.

A committee has designed a six-month-long campaign against the killing of the two fisherfolk leaders.

During a meeting at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) office, they focussed on police negligence because the main accused in the FIR was still at large.

Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research’s Zulfiqar Shah, Strengthening Participatory Organisation’s Elahi Bakhsh, HRCP’s Shamsuddin, Aurat Foundation’s Mehnaz Rehman, National Organisation for Working Communities’s Farhat Parven, Pakistan Workers Confederation’s Fareed Awan, Muttahida Labour Federation’s Mirza Maqsood, Urban Resource Centre’s Zahid Farooq, Pakistan Peace Coalition’s B M Kutty and independent development economist Dr Aly Ercelan are part of the committee. 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2011.