Hassan Nawaz Gardezi Jan 8, 1933 – April 19, 2017 It is with extreme sorrow that the Committee of Progressive Pakistani-Canadians announces the death of Dr. Hassan Nawaz Gardezi, one of the founding members of the CPPC, a lifelong and a tireless activist against imperialism and wars and for equality of all, justice, peace, secularism […]
The Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians celebrates Faiz Day on November 21st to pay homage to the revolutionary Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, The program includes recitals, audio & video clippings and singing of his revolutionary and love poetry. For tickets, please contact Mr. Abbas Syed at 647-524-1891. 21 November, 2015 at 06:30 p.m. Burnhamthorpe […]
The Failure of Anti-Terrorist, Social and Foreign Policies Leads to Terrorist Attacks: Vice-Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) David Pestieau on the terrorist attacks in Brussels Airport and in the Brussels metro and on the latest antiterrorist draft bill in Belgium. (Interview was published in L’Humanité Dimanche, 31 March 2016) HD. What state […]
The terrorist attack targeting Christians in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Lahore, Pakistan by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, an offshoot of the Tehreek-e-Taliban on Sunday March 27, killed about 70 innocent children, women and men and injured hundreds of others. This is the latest incidence of fundamentalist hatred, and violence against religious minorities that started with attacks against Hindus […]
March 21 is celebrated as the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. March 21 is also celebrated around the world as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A day that marks the anniversary of the tragic events of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police opened fire and killed 69 people at […]
The Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians celebrates Faiz Day on November 21st to pay homage to the revolutionary Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, The program includes recitals, audio & video clippings and singing of his revolutionary and love poetry. For tickets, please contact Mr. Abbas Syed at 6475241891. 21 November, 2015 at 06:30 p.m. Burnhamthorpe […]
The case of Zunera Ishaq, the 29-year old Muslim woman who came to Ontario from Pakistan in 2008 and refused to take part in a citizenship ceremony because she would have to show her face, is in the news again. The Committee of Progressive Pakistani- Canadians is a secular organization. We stand for the full […]
The picture of the body of the little Syrian child lying dead face down in the Water after a boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe, has seared the consciousness of people across the globe. Thousands of others from Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan – and other African countries – making […]
An analysis of one of the most overlooked episodes of mass starvation in history and what we can learn from it today. DR. JANAM MUKHERJEE is an Assistant Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto and author of ‘Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire’, an account of the impacts of hunger […]
