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Nationalism cannot differentiate between right, wrong: Palijo
HYDERABAD, March 28: Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo said on
Saturday that nationalism did not make any distinction between right
and wrong and good and evil and many a time supported excesses and
injustices.
Speaking as chief guest at the launch of a survey report prepared by
the All-Hyderabad Bangles Welding Workers Union on female bangles
workers at the press club, Mar Palijo said that regardless of
nationalism, wrongdoings, excesses and tyranny must be opposed.
He said that as a student of international literature he believed
that a clear distinction should be made between right and wrong and
good and evil regardless of religion, caste, colour or creed or East
and West.
He said the problems of the poor of Hyderabad could be solved
through unity of all the oppressed people. He and his fellow lawyers
would be in the forefront of struggle for the rights of the
oppressed and the underprivileged, he vowed.
He said that people must shun ethnic and caste-based system and work
jointly for the cause of the oppressed people. It was Islam, which
provided right of free will marriage to women but this golden
principle was not being followed in Pakistan, he said.
Ironically, the corrupt, murderers, looters and kidnappers were
elected as public representatives. In the existing feudal system
elections were simply meaningless because the working class was the
worst sufferer under the so-called democratic system, he said.
He said that his party had created awareness among rural women and
given them proper training. They were fully aware of political and
economic situation of the country, he said.
Mr Palijo said that he was of the opinion that women had more power
to resist and tolerate than their counterparts and spirit of
sacrifice was an integral part of their nature.
Humanity could be saved if women were made the rulers, he said,
adding, that he was prepared to work as an ordinary worker under a
sincere leadership.
MPA Farheen Mughal, Bangles Welding Workers Union leaders, Rehan
Yousufzai, Ms Rehana Yasmeen, Mustafa Baloch, Ms Zahida Shaikh and
others highlighted problems and miseries of female bangle workers
and demanded legislation to protect their rights.
The gathering adopted many resolutions, demanding minimum wages of
Rs6,000 for the female bangle workers and provision of social
security, old age benefit and dowry facilities.
A resolution pointed out that 50 per cent of the population of
Hyderabad was associated with bangles industry, and there were 1,600
wholesale bangle shops. Therefore, a separate colony should be
established for them, he stressed.
Another resolution said that part-time schools should be established
for more than 2,500 children working in bangles industry in the
factories and at home, contract system should be abolished and
action should be taken against factory owners for violation of
labour laws.
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Bureau Report:Dawn:Sunday, 29 Mar, 2009)
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