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<H1><SPAN
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Pakistan Trade Union Federation</SPAN></H1>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">URGENT<BR></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">All
Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF)<BR>Calling for Solidarity<BR
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Victims of Earthquake
Needs Your Help!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">All
Pakistan Trade Union Federation shocked the damages and death increase of
hundred thousands people of the Pakistan after an atrocious disaster hit
Pakistan on Saturday morning, October 8, 2005.</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">This
message calls for solidarity from all the organizations all over the world,
asking them to contribute to the "APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund" it has set up to
help provide victims with medicines, tents, blankets, food, drinking water and
clothes.<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The figures
are stunning: the death toll may exceed 50,000 at the time we are writing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thousands of children are still buried
in the debris of their schools. About four millions people have been affected by
the earthquake. Many roads are still blocked.<BR
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">People crying with pain and
with other lines and unconscious or the appalling scenes that greet one in the
hospitals after the huge earthquake that hit the country on Saturday October
8<SUP>th</SUP>, 2005.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Times; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">To
help the victimize people, </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">APTUF held
an emergency meeting on October 9th, 2005. The federation expressed concern that
the government seems to have no policy to deal with the crisis and is failed to
provide the earthquake victims with necessary and prompt
assistance.<BR><BR>APTUF has called for international solidarity. Meanwhile, it
has resolved to ask all its members and office bearers to donate the equivalent
of one day's earnings to the "APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund". It has mobilized
its members to establish camps in NWFP and Azad Kashmir and affected provinces
to help the victims.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">On behalf
of All Pakistan Trade Union Federation, we express our deepest sympathy for
those families that have lost loved ones in the earthquake.
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B></FONT><FONT size=2>We
request all people and organizations to kindly send tents, clothes, food,
medicines, blankets and their donations to:<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT></B></SPAN><FONT
size=2><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">“APTUF
Earthquake Relief Fund”</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"></FONT><FONT
size=2> <B></FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR>* Contact APTUF (All Pakistan Trade
Union Federation):<BR></FONT></B><FONT size=2>14-N, Industrial Area, Gulberg,
Lahore - Pakistan.<BR>Tel: 00 92-42-5755078 and 00 92-42-5755079 Fax 00
92-42-6665301 - </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Mail:<U> <A
href="mailto:aptuf@brain.net.pk">aptuf@brain.net.pk</A>; <A
href="mailto:rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk">rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk</A><o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Working
Women Organization</SPAN></B><SPAN
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">E5, 48/A,
Rehmania Street, Zaman Colony, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Cavalry
Ground Extension Lahore - Pakistan – <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">mail :<A
href="mailto:rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk">rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="tab-stops: 297.0pt"><STRONG>Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhary</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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Secretary<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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Pakistan Trade Union Federation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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