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Joint struggle needed against imperialism, globalisation’
KARACHI, March 04 : The visiting leaders of Indian Communist Parties (CPI-M and CPI), A B Bardhan and Harkishan Singh Surjeet have said that the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan was a good omen for the people of both the countries and in the region and urged the people of both the countries to fight jointly against the imperialism, fascism, and globalisation.
They said that the dialogue process was the result of the pressure of the people of both the countries and hoped that all the problems would be resolved through dialogue.
The leaders of Indian Communist Parties said this while addressing a reception hosted at the Karachi Press Club and later talking to newsmen after the meeting with PPP leaders at the Sindh Assembly.
The reception was hosted by the newly-formed Joint Left Front comprising the Communist Party of Pakistan, Communist Mazdoor-Kissan Party (CMKP), Labour Party of Pakistan (LPP), and the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ).
The leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement led by Dr Farooq Sattar also called on the Indian communist leaders at a local hotel and discussed with them the ongoing dialogue between the two neighbours.
Later, the visiting leaders, along with other members of the delegation, including Shamim Faizi, Murli Dharan and Naraish Nadeem, attended a dinner hosted by Progressive Writers’ at the PMA House.
The Indian Communist leaders AB Bardhan and Harr Kishan Singh Surjeet said that the situation of the region would change after the friendship of India and Pakistan and hoped that the people of both the countries would fight jointly against the imperialism, fascism and globalisation.
AB Bardhan was so articulate in his views and his party’s strategy towards Indian National Congress and her allies that anyone who even differed with him ideologically could not resist listening to him.
He clearly said: "Our so-called communists keep praising Indian communist parties and their struggle against capitalism. Nothing is different across the border. If fascism found its roots here in Pakistan, it also developed in India in the form of Rashteriya Sevak Sangh (RSS)."
He was of the view that every communist in Pakistan should unite on one platform. "I am not here to advise you on your own social conditions and strategy to handle any political situation and if I do so, you would say after my departure that an intellectual pope came from across the border and tried to tell us about our own society.’
He said that the purpose for joining the coalition government with Congress was to struggle for a better living for the working class and peasantry by reforms in the public sector.
Comrade Singh, a 90 years old communist leader urged a joint struggle of the people of both the countries against imperialism and fascism.
According to Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the party delegation discussed with leaders of visiting Indian Communist Parties matters including the opening of the Khokrapar-Monabao rail route, opening visa offices in Karachi and Mumbai, and ferry service between Karachi and Mumbai.