Farooq Tariq speaks on "Have Bush's bombs brought peace to Afghanistan?"
Farooq Tariq, is the general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan,
which is the leading force in building a secular mass opposition
movement to the war on Afghanistan, and is playing a significant role in
the peasant and union movement.
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Farooq Tariq biographical details:
General secretary Labour Party Pakistan;
member Punjab Union of Journalists;
member Joint Action Committee for the defence of journalists in
Pakistan, (the 6 member committee is recently formed by all the
journalist unions of Pakistan).
Born in Toba Tek Singh in 1955, Farooq Tariq has an impressive political
career as a labour leader of Pakistan. During the Zia regime, he went in
exile in 1978 because of his fiery writings against the dictatorship.
The hanging of Zulfiqar Bhutto, and Tariq's involvement in Pakistan
Peoples Party activities against the military regime, forced him to
leave his higher studies abroad.
Tariq was the first political exile to come back to Pakistan only a
month after the martial law was lifted in January 1988. In 1994, Tariq
left PPP and formed Jeddojuhd Inqilabi Tehrik. Out of this struggle,
Labour Party Pakistan was formed in 1997, with the help of many trade
unionists and left-wing activists from different background.
Tariq has been arrested several times, not only in Pakistan but in many
other countries as well. In year 2001, he was arrested in Pakistan twice
during the Alliance For Restoration Of Democracy movement.
In 1980, Tariq became the founding editor of the monthly Struggle
published in Holland in both English and Urdu. The paper is still
printed in Pakistan as weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd.
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