Communist Party of Pakistan denounces the frenzy of
jingoism between India and Pakistan
The current escalated frenzy of jingoism between India and Pakistan, has created a nonsensical combatant
environment in the whole region, followed by heavy cross border shelling and air bombardment which is a total
wastage of the national capital in the air.
No doubt this tension is in the best interest of the religious fanatics and the military establishment, but it has
nothing to do with the peoples’ well-being of both the countries.
Over 700 million people in both the countries are subjected to starvation, miseries and even a bigger number
is without work. Peasants / workers / unemployed, under heavy debts are compelled to commit suicides and
others have to sell their children and body parts in order to survive in this system of savage capitalism.
In the given conditions, the ruling classes must be ashamed of having delivered nothing to the public. This
uncalled war madness is a pretext for the military to grab mammoth increase in its budget supplies.
The present so called elected democratic governments in both the countries are two sides of the same coin.
Both playing to the gallery of their dirty political ambition and in larger canvas serving the interests of the
imperialist masters and arm dealers.
CP of Pakistan strongly condemn the ongoing bellicose environ between the two countries. CP of Pakistan
admits that both India and Pakistan are twin natural neighbours, holding very important geopolitical position in
the region of Asia, all the outstanding issues must be resolved through political dialogue, respecting peaceful
coexistence of each other. Both must fight together against poverty, diseases, unemployment, homelessness,
fascism, increasing fanaticism and moral degradation .
For this very sane reason Communist Parties , Progressive and Peace Democracy loving forces on both
sides should unanimously resolve to press upon the rulers and the military establishment in their respective
countries to shun away the pursuits of war in lieu of peace , jobs and peoples harmony, diverting all the resources
towards the welfare of the people instead of dumping it in fire fodder .
27-02-19
Politburo Communist Party of Pakistan .
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It came in to light that real
minimum wages have declined in
some scheduled employments
such as brick-kilns, oil mills and in
construction sector and agriculture
sector according to I.L.O’s India
wage report-2018.
A government appointed
expert panel recently proposed
minimum wages. This committee
was led by V.V.Giri National Labour
Institute fellow Anoop Satpathy to
determine a new methodology for
minimum wage. The report was
made public in the second week of
Feb 2019.
This committee suggested the
national level minimum wage in the
country should be Rs 375/- a day.
It also proposed a national
minimum wage at various regional
levels depending upon local
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conditions in the range Rs.322/- to
Rs.447/- a day.
This panel pointed out “Despite
the statutory fixation of wages Act
1948, low wages and wide
disparities in minimum wages for
various scheduled employments
have continued to prevail across
states”. ... “There is no systematic
procedure to revise minimum
wages in states”..... “everything is
contingent upon the state’s
institutional capacity of minimum
wage-fixing machinery”.
If these suggestions are
implemented by the centre and
state governments, workers from
the states Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana, Gujarat, Himachal
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu,
Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh,
Tripura and Meghalaya may see
their income levels rise by two to
five times since these states have
a significantly lower level of
minimum wages than what was
established by the panel based on
data evidence.
It is note-worthy to learn that in
the states of Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana and Gujarat the
minimum wage level for an
unskilled is the lowest of all other
states in our country.
While such have been the stark
realities with regards to the
minimum wages to workers,
distress of farmers and non-farm
workers in rural India, to claim of
economic development etc are
nothing but deceptions designed
by the ruling-classes and ruling
parties’ leaders to hood-wink
people in the name of ‘parlia-
mentary democracy’! One need not
fall prey to such illusory claims of
our rulers!
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