Pakistan: Wazir Ali freedom and all political prisoners

On Sunday 26 May the Pakistani army cracked down with lead bullets a manifestation of Pashtun. It was on the border with Afghanistan, which they were to support Mr Ali Mohsin Dawar and Wazir Pashtun Movement Defense (PMT). The result of the brutal aggression was 13 protesters dead, 30 wounded, the arrest of the two leaders and activists. The MST and LIS drive the international campaign for his immediate release.

Pakistan is a country in Central Asia which has 200 millions of inhabitants, It located in a strategic hinge zone between South Asia and Middle East, convulsed by the US imperialist aggression and disputes between the powers in the region. its population, mainly Muslim religion, It is made up of different ethnic groups that extend beyond its borders. These were artificially demarcated when it achieved independence from the British Empire in 1947 with its regional rival, India, with which it has strong shocks in the Kashmir region.

When the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, political leadership, on which it has a fundamental weight the army, made an agreement with the US and its territory was based on organizing the mujahedeen insurgency that eventually oust the Soviets, opportunity in which forged strong ties with the Afghan Taliban. After the attack on the twin towers of the 11S 2001, Yankees demanded that Pakistan was part of the Afghan Taliban repression that imperialist invasion ousted from power in neighboring Afghanistan.

US loyalty to the Pakistani leadership was half finished and never break ties with their Taliban allies (1), that the Pakistani army allowed refuge with thousands of militants in the Waziristan border area. This area is populated by Pashtun (2), which it is the second most important ethnic group in the country, which for many years he had to endure the tyranny of the Taliban, Al Qaeda acting as brutal against communities who opposed him. For example, Thirteen relatives of Ali Wazir, including his father and brother, They were killed in one of the slaughter produced during the occupation Taliban.

Now that the region has returned to the control of the Pakistani army, local people, who has been the victim of armed conflict against the Taliban presence, must support military arrogance in a region in which to 2018, near 5 million Pakistanis living in what was called Tribal area managed by the Government (GIRL), areas that had no right to choose their own local authorities. This oppression is an important ethnic group that gave rise to the Movement and massiveness Pashtun Defense (PMT), two of whose leaders Trotskyist Wazir Ali (3) and Mohsin Dawar, They were elected deputies to the National Assembly of South Waziristan and North Waziristan, respectively.

As Asian Marxist Review reports in its international appeal to demand the release of Ali Wazir: "The PTM demands an end to military operations in the border region with Afghanistan. This region is inhabited by ethnic pastors. Their demands have put them in conflict with the powerful military country. During the last two months, military spokesman has been going threats to the PTM. further, the media were informed publicly by the military to not give any coverage to the PTM.” Not only they have not given coverage, but are part of a campaign that syndicates MPs and activists arrested as "terrorists" violent enemies of the country.

Struggles against the IMF adjustment

Pakistan is a country that has a system of government, in which under parliamentary forms it has a strong weight of the military institution. It is governed by the Party of Justice (PTI) who surprisingly he won elections 2013 and he carried their leader, Today Prime Minister, Imran Khan, a former international cricket player, for president.(4) This athlete defeated the Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif, after the former prime minister was convicted of corruption for his involvement in the affair of "Panama papers", With which, broke alternation between this training and the Popular Party led by Bhutto clan.

Fighting the Pashtun population for their democratic rights are part of a picture in which, as we show fellow Fight, ahead processes "resistance, movement, protests " response of the Pakistani people to the country's entry to a "Programa IMF" that "in the coming weeks and months" will bring "Mass privatization, price increases, inflation and reforms in the economy that affect millions of workers and youth ".(5)

And this crisis develops in "One of the most unequal countries in the world. Single 22 families control 66% of industrial assets in Pakistan and 20% It consumes seven times richer than the 20% more poor. Khan and Sharif names as mean 'ruler' or "noble" "and" 45% of all officeholders in Pakistan originate from one of these families 'dynasties' ". In which the participation of young people in higher education is very low, a 44% of children under five have moderate or severe atrophy and most do not have access to running water or toilets connected to sewers.(6)

The campaign for freedom of Wazir Ali, Mohsin Dawar and all political prisoners
Wazir Ali was arrested with other activists in protest 26 May when he was assisting a wounded. In an illegal action, since it has fueros parliamentarians, He was referred to the "Department for Combating Terrorism", distribution where he was tortured. Badly beaten, It has been deprived of medical care and medicines for chronic conditions of diabetes and hypertension. Mohsin Dawar is also arrested several days after he was chased and capture order.

The brutal persecution of government Imran Khan has come to repress peaceful demonstrations, to disable cellular in the region is under a state of emergency and ignores the claim of the parliamentary opposition demanded the release of detainees.
From the International Socialist League (LIS), which is part of the MST, We call to make a big campaign, signing the petition, taking pictures support, taking action against the Pakistani embassy and all necessary, by:

The immediate release of Mr Ali Mohsin Dawar and Wazir.
Trial and punishment of those who committed the slaughter and those who ordered.
Trial and punishment of those who tortured Ali Wazir and other detainees in the Counterterrorism Center.
Elimination curfew in the region. End of oppressive policies against the Pashtun people.
End defamation "terrorist" for minorities demanding their rights.

Gustavo Giménez

1-Trump has sanctioned assistance by eliminating Pakistan 2.000 million dollars for the country's refusal to banish the "sanctuaries" Taliban. In the past Pakistan was benefited from the assistance 11.000 million to fight the Taliban. Money used instead to rearm in its conflict against India.

2-Pashtuns living in the territories bordering Afghanistan. According to the newspaper El Pais of Spain's 24/11/07, 27 million live in Pakistani territory and other 12 they do in Afghanistan.

3-Ali Warzin belongs to the organization La Lucha, the most important Trotskyist party in Pakistan, which recently he sent a greeting to the founding meeting of the LIS expressing their willingness to participate in this political project of international revolutionary organization.

4-The current president of the country is Alif Alvi Justice Party (PTI). anointed president 3 September 2018 after fraudulent elections.

5-Greeting Fight the constituent meeting of the LIS in Barcelona (May of 2019)

6-Appointment and item data "Pakistan: more than cricket "Michael Roberts, published without permission 26/07/2018

reproduced from International Socialist League | 5.6.2019