AWP Finance Appeal update: 16 September 2014 After updating the finance appeal on 14th September, we received the following donations: South Asia Peoples Forum UK: 30,000 Nighat Khan: (Lahore) 10,000 Sadique Ghuman: (Gojranwala) 2,000 Dr Iftikhar Mehmood (London) 15,000 Mehvish Ahmad (Denmark) 10,000 Total raised including this: 576,994 To be raised: 423,006 Awami Workers Party finance appeal to raise one million Rupees ($10,000) for the organization of first congress has brought some good results, Here are the details, Please see the possibility of sending a donation on urgent basis 1- Fanoos Gujjar (Boner) 20,000 2- Baba Jan (Gilgit) 3,000 3- Farooq Tariq (Toba Tek Singh) 5,000 4- Javed Akhtar (Karachi) 1,000 5- Nisar Shah (Kashmir) 1,000 6- Dr. Farzana Bari (Islamabad) 20,000 7- Younas Rahu (Moro) 500 8- Amir Hamza Virk (Pakpattan) 2,000 9- Akhtar Hussain (Karachi) 10,000 10- Shazia Khan (Lahore) 5,000 11- Arif Ayaz (Faisalabad) 2,000 12- Dr. Samrina Hashmi (Karachi) 10,000 13- Abdul Jalal (Swat) 2,000 14- Suhail Javed (Multan) 1,000 15- Bukhshal Thaloo (Hyderabad) 500 16- Alia Bukhshal (Hyderabad) 1,000 17- Riffet Maqsood (Lahore) 2,000 18- Talat Rubab (Rawalpindi) 1,000 19- Agha Abdul Sattar (Islamabad) 3,000 20- Hyder Zaman (Noshehra) 5,000 21- Ch. Naeem Shakir (Lahore) 10,000 22- Yousaf Masti Khan (Karachi) 2,000 23- Hasan Askri (Sanghar) 1,000 24- Asim Sajad Akhtar (Rawalpindi) 10,000 25- Safdar Sindhu (Sheikhupura) 3,000 26- Sadique Dogar (Qasur) 5,000 27- Ihtisham Akber (Okara) 1,000 28- Ismat Sultana (Islamabad) 5,000 29- Iqbal Sultana (Karachi) 5,000 30- Abid Hasan Minto (Lahore) 50,000 31- Saba Gul (Quetta) 1,000 32- Fatima Ihsan (Islamabad) 5,000 33- A R Saraba (UK) 20,000 34- Comrade Saghir Ahmad (UK) 10,000 35- Naveed Hussain 34,837 36- Dr. Saqib Abbasi (Islamabad) 25,000 37- Pervaiz Fateh (UK) 70,000 38- Aafiya Zia (Karachi) 15,000 39- Fariq Alvie (Middle East) 27,625 40- Comrade Kenji (Japan Revolutionary Communist Party) 89,532 41- Naeem Mirza (Islamabad) 50,000 Total: amount raised: 509,994 To meet the target, we need more 490,006 Finance Appeal First Congress, Awami Workers Party, 27-28 September 2014, Islamabad In November 2012, the Awami Party, Labour Party and Workers Party merged to form the Awami Workers Party (AWP) in an unprecedented effort to build a genuine left alternative to mainstream political forces in Pakistan. While not the first attempt to forge left unity, the formation of the AWP generated a great deal of excitement amongst progressives both within and outside the country due to its promise of building upon the best traditions of the twentieth century left and making ideological and organizational adaptations necessary for a viable leftist project in the present century. In the almost two years since the AWP’s inception, the cauldron that is Pakistani politics has become even more explosive, with the fledgling party confirming its credentials as the only meaningful left alternative to status quo. As the contradictions of state, imperialism, patriarchy and combined and uneven development in a multi-national country grow increasingly acute, reactionaries of all hues have consolidated their monopoly over political discourse, aided by a complicit corporate media. Most recently, right-wing populists Tahir ul Qadri and Imran Khan have spearheaded protests that which ostensibly herald the onset of ‘revolutionary’ change in the country. It is in this context that the AWP is holding its first federal congress in the last week of September. Three hundred delegates from Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Sindh, Siraiki Wasaib, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) will gather in the capital Islamabad for two days to deliberate on the party’s future direction, ratify its constitution and party programme, and elect its federal leadership for a two-year term. Elections in the federating units have already been completed and the successful completion of the federal congress will bring closure to the first phase of party-building. As a left party operating in an hostile environment, we rely on all those sympathetic to the cause of progressive politics to help us build a viable leftist alternative. For many comrades travel to and from Islamabad is prohibitively expensive, while the costs of boarding and lodging for three hundred delegates will stretch the party’s as yet meager resources to the limit. The estimated cost of the entire two-day event, which will be punctuated by a rally of thousands of working people, is Rs. 1 million (US$10,000). Please help us meet this cost, and in the process take a small step towards our long-term goal of a socialist Pakistan. Please send your donations to the following bank account (AWP is yet in process of opening a bank account on its own name, Shazia Khan is finance secretary of AWP) Account no: Shazia Khan Standard Chartered Bank : Main Gulberg Branch (005) Lahore, Pakistan Bank account no: 08078319301 IBAN: PK93SCBL0000008078319301 Swift code: SCBLPKKX Appeal By: Abid Hasan Minto (president AWP) tel: 03008473263 Fanoos Gujjar (chairperson AWP) tel: 03345691939 Farooq Tariq (general secretary AWP) Tel: 03008411945 Farzana Bari (women secretary AWP) tel: 03005109631 Shazia Khan (Finance secretaryAWP ) tel: 0092 03008433173 Please send all information regarding finance appeal to Shazia Khan khan.shazia66@gmail And copy to Farooq Tariq farooqtariq@hotmail
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 05:03:47 +0000
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