PESHAWAR: Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek national coordinator Tariq Mehmood on Saturday said that the government was implementing neo-liberal policies instead of protecting the interests of farmers, especially small and landless ones, resulting in mass destruction of the working class.
PKMT national coordinator Tariq Mehmood told reporters here on the International Day of Landless Peasants that his organisation was committed to fighting for the rights of small and landless peasants and the working class.
“We’ll continue the struggle for food sovereignty while calling for just and equitable distribution of land,” he said.
Mr Mehmood rejected corporate control in food and agriculture and advocated for the “right to save and plant indigenous seeds.”
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