As the people of Pakistan face one of the gravest humanitarian crises in their history, grassroots activists, trade unionists, socialists and young people are taking matters into their own hands as the Pakistani government responds very slowly. And focuses their resources on securing infrastructure and maintaining civil order rather than saving lives. Read more...

The flooding in Pakistan is still worsening. And already there is a huge humanitarian disaster for the nearly 20 million people displaced by the disaster. Read more...

The Revolutionary Socialist Movement, the Pakistani section of the League for the Fifth International, is involved in flood relief work across the country. This is a report of their work so far Read more...

Over 1,500 people have died and a further 14 million people affected by the worst flooding Pakistan has seen in 80 years. Entire villages have been swept away in the Swat valley, particularly badly hit, which has also seen two years of intense military fighting between the Taliban and the Pakistani army. Read more...

The city of Karachi in the south of the Pakistan was gripped by violence last week after Raza Haider, a leading MP of the right wing Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was assassinated outside a mosque on Monday 1 August. Read more...

A huge strike by power loom workers in Pakistan has seen them win a 17 per cent pay increase. The strike, in the industrial city of Faisalabad, lasted for nine days and saw thousands of workers join picket lines across the city. In some factories there were clashes with company guards and the police as workers fought to keep the factory closed. Read more...

On a small roundabout in the middle of Lahore, a group of workers sits on a rug. They and others have been there for over two months, keeping a constant protest outside the Punjabi government building. They are the sacked University Health Sciences workers whose sacking has created such outrage across the city. Read more...

The Pakistani military offensive targeting Taliban forces has seen widespread death and destruction, reports Simon Hardy, and threatens to tear the country apart on behalf of the US Read more...