In addition, political and social workers, people's artists and students also participated in the meeting. The meeting began with the recitation of the Holy Qur'an by Hafiz Saeed, District President of Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party, after which Ahsaneen Sadiq presented Manzoor Niazi's famous »Naat Kadoon Makke Ge Capitalism Ya Rasool Allah«, with the progressive religious figure Shaukat leading a prayer, after which all the participants recited the International Workers' Anthem in Punjabi under the initiative of Nasreen Majeed Yusuf and Tashfeen Majeed. During the meeting, the Azadi Tehreek leaders Saeed, Bibi Rani, Khalid, Nadeemullah, Ibtisam, Dildad Sahutra and Shaukat, joined by Professor Omar Ali, and Asghar Shaheen, along with other labor leaders including Mian Shahbaz, Abdul Rauf Ansari, Rana Azeem, and Allah Rakha from Faisalabad, Muhammad Ali from Chakku Mor, and Yousuf from Pattoki, addressed the gathering accordingly.
In addition, the Bhutta Mazdoor poet Munawar Dewana recited his poetry, and the Pattoki Group led by Rehmat Ali Shakir, which also included Amanat Ali, Sindhu Patuwala, Malik Ghulam Hussain, and Muhammad Tufail Raza, presented revolutionary songs and poems. Ashraf Sheikh, a long-time activist of the struggle of the Bhutta Mazdoor & Muslim Sheikh community, as well as Bhutta Mazdoor Movement activist and teacher Baji Catherine also presented revolutionary poems. At the end of the program, Sangat Theater and Mazdoor Kisan Party colleagues Muhammad Naqi, Umar Zamran, Laiba Akram, Laiba Qutb and Muhammad Naeem Ansari, who came from Lahore, presented a revolutionary play, after which Asghar Shaheen, Convener of the Organizing Committee of the Azadi Tehreek (Punjab), thanked all the participants and outlined the action plan for the intensified struggle of the coming days against the bonded labour labor enforced by NGOs that profit in its name and the imperialist, feudal and bureaucratic capitalist system that sustains it.
The Azadi Tehreek shall strike the final blow to the inhuman tradition of bonded labor in Pakistan — Inquilab Zindabad!
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