Pakistan team leaves to attend Saarc moot

KARACHI - A fifty-member Pakistani delegation left on Wednesday to take part in three-day South Asian People’s Assembly for the year 2008 taking place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from tomorrow (18th July), just a week ahead of the official SAARC Summit.

According to the representative of the PILER, Khadam Ali, the delegation comprises of activists from people’s movements, civil society organisations, intellectuals, cultural personalities, parliamentarians and concerned individuals as well as political activists.

They together represent agricultural workers, organised and unorganised workers, women, indigenous groups, ethnic religious and linguistic minorities, youth and numerous other oppressed castes.