Journeys to democracy

Just received via email: The Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) announces with deep sense of bereavement pain and profound sorrow, to all the fraternal parties, comrades and friends, that Comrade Chacha Maula Bux Khaskheli, the Secretary General of the  CC of CPP, has passed away at 11 pm on 30^th August, 2011.  He was 76 years old. The Communist Party of Pakistan offers LAAL SALAM (RED SALUTE) to Comrade Khaskheli for his unforgettable militant struggle and sacrifices for the party and people of Pakistan.

A BRIEF PROFILE OF COMRADE KHASKHELI:
Comrade Khaskheli was born in 1935, in the Province of Sindh, village Kandhra, Tehsil Sukker, in a working class family. He had no formal education. He started his practical life since early childhood as construction worker. At age 27 while employed as mason at Rohri Cement factory he joined the workers’ union and became member of the working committee of the Cement factory’s workers union, which was a front trade union of the CPP. In 1966, he was elected President of the workers union where, during the same period a confounding syndicate of different trade union organization was founded by CPP called PAKISTAN WORKERS FEDERATION. He was elected its chairman. In 1988 it evolved into the ALL PAKISTAN TRADE UNION ORGANIZATION (APTUO) of which Comrade Khaskheli was elected President and led till his last breath.
In the meanwhile, he remained elected as President of the workers federation at the Rohri Cement factory. He also led the anti-privatization committee during 1991.
Comrade Khaskheli became  full member of CPP in 1968 and elected provincial committee member in 1975 and then elected secretary of the provincial committee in 1986 and elected as member of the CC in 1987.
He was elected Secretary General of  the CC of CPP in 1999 and consecutively re-elected and remained  its GS, till his last breath .
Comrade Khaskheli  remained rigorously incarcerated during different dictatorial and bourgeois-feudal  democratic periods of  agonizing concerted oppressions and persecutions against CPP for over five years and lived nearly a decade ‘underground’.
He will remain immortal among the working, downtrodden marginalized masses and the Communist Movement in Pakistan for all times to come as an unbreakable  daring militant leader of the working  people.

Issued by: Central Secretariat
Communist Party of Pakistan
Central Secretariat: D-168, Naseem Nagar Phase-III, Hyderabad, Sindh.
Phone: +92-22-2654531, +92-22-2654531
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