Posts Tagged ‘Laal’
Inqalab: Laal’s new song on the bonded labour in Pakistan
Thirteen years after our Supreme Court declared bonded labour to be unconstitutional, and a decade after the National Assembly passed the Bonded Labour Liberation Act, there are still 1 million bonded workers in the brick kilns of Pakistan. Overall, there may be 20 million bonded labourers in Pakistan as a whole according to estimates of the Human [...]
Laal against religious extremism and terrorism
LUBP is pleased to publish the following lecture (video) and the associated talk by Dr. Taimur Rahman which presents Laal's brave, principled stance on religious extremism and terrorism in Pakistan and the wider [...]
Channels refuse to play Laal’s “too anti-army” song
Editor's note: Laal is amongst very few honest and bold voices in Pakistan who are equally critical of Pakistan's almighty military establishment and their jihad enterprise (Taliban, LeT, SSP etc). We express our full support to Laal's contribution to Pakistani society and music, and condemn those channels which refused to play "jhoot ka uncha [...]
jhoot ka uncha sar dekha hai – by Laal
Here is Laal's much awaited new video "Jhoot Ka Uncha Sar Dekha Hai". In this song, Laal has combined the Brechtian idea of defamiliarization with the wonderfully satirical poem by Habib Jalib called "Jhoot Ka Uncha Sar Daikha Hai" to comment on the level of lying, deceit and sheer hypocrisy that passes without notice in our society. [...]
Fareeda, turya turya ja: In support of internal diversity of Islam – by Dr Jawad Syed
I am writing this brief post for the LUBP in defiance of all those Shias, Sunnis, Salafis, Doebandis, Barelvis, Ismaelis, Hanafis, Jafaris, Malikis, Shafeis, Hambalis etc who consider their beliefs and practices as the only true representation of Islam considering followers of other sects as deviants, less Muslims or infidels. This post is in [...]
March of the landless peasants towards Lahore
As i write these lines, members of the band Laal and the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (CMKP) are currently in Khanewal mobilizing one of the largest movement of the landless peasants for a march towards Lahore and presenting their demands for ownership of land to the government. Tomorrow, approximately 60,000 landless peasants are expected to [...]
Educate yourself about the Taliban – by Taimur Rahman
We must educate ourselves about what the Taliban represent. Here are some of the laws issued by the Taliban government in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. The Talibanic Laws 1996-2001 1. "A denier of veil is an infidel and an unveiled woman is lewd. Conditions of wearing veil": 2. The veil must cover the whole body. 3. [...]
“Laal” March against the Rawalpindi attack
To members of LaaL Dear All, "The only thing required for the rise of evil is for good men to do nothing". We shall be marching in solidarity with those who have lost their lives in the attack on Rawalpindi today. Rawalpindi is our city, our home. Let us join hands and (more...)
