Union leader passes away

Mohammad Yamin, Pakistan Security Printing Press employees union founder, member of National Awami Party laid to rest.

KARACHI: Mohammad Yamin, ex-president and founder of the Pakistan Security Printing Press employees union, and a member of the National Awami Party, passed away at the age of 84 and was laid to rest on Sunday.

He was born in Rae Bareli, UP, India. At the age of 13 he joined the Indian National Congress. He worked in labour unions in India as well. He migrated to Pakistan after Partition, in 1948 and started struggling for the rights of labourers. He started the historical labour Movement of Pakistan in 1963. He was imprisoned most of the time in his life during the Zia, Yahya and Bhutto eras. He fought the longest ever judicial trial of 30 years in the history of Pakistan for the restoration of his job at the Pakistan Security Printing Press after he was rusticated in 1974 by the then government. Although he won the case, by that time he had crossed the retirement age. He died of liver cancer.

Published in The Express Tribune November 22^nd, 2010.