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style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"><FONT size=6><U>National Congress of
APTUF<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
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style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=6>November 15, 2006<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Held
in Lahore-Pakistan</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>Dear Friends and
Comrades,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>Revolutionary greetings
from All Pakistan Trade Union Federation!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>I would like to inform
you that APTUF is holding its National Conference in this crucial time when the
multinationals; the financial speculators; the international financial
institutions such as the WTO, World Bank and IMF; and all the governments in
their service -- have declared an economic and political war against the
workers, against their organizations, and against the peoples.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 5pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 5pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>The struggles of
resistance of workers against discriminatory policies will get success for the
unity of working people the world over -- from North to South and from East to
West. It requires the united struggle of oppressed and exploited workers/peoples
to stop this offensive of war and destruction,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>which leading
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left"
align=left><FONT size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino">world
to the brink of barbarism. <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 5pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>The time is extremely
difficult and we know that with the unity of the working people across borders,
in defense of our rights and gains, in defense of the independence of our trade
unions, in defense of democracy itself we can prevail over corporate greed, over
the oil war worlds, over the international institutions of global
capitalism—from IMF, to the World Bank, to the WTO.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">To
chalk out strategies and make plan of action against neo-liberal globalization,
free trade agreements, government anti workers laws and policies, war of
aggression and to strengthen workers movement against militant attacks on jobs,
wages and democratic rights, <B><U>All Pakistan Trade Union Federation is
holding its National Congress in Lahore on November 15, 2006 at 2:00 P.M. 28
kilometer Multan Road, Lahore</U></B>. </SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'CG Omega'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: 'CG Omega'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>We
invite all progressive, militant and anti-imperialist, trade unions, workers
organizations, to participate in this event but because of lack of finances we
are </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino">unable to bear
travel, lodging expenses.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; COLOR: navy; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>To support and strengthen
workers movement in Pakistan, we request you to send solidarity messages on
Email: </FONT><A href="mailto:rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk"><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><FONT size=3>rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT
size=3>; </FONT><A href="mailto:aptuf@brain.net.pk"><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><FONT size=3>aptuf@brain.net.pk</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT
size=3>;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fax # 92-42-6665301.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Messages of solidarity will read out in
the congress.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 6pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy"><FONT face=Palatino>In
solidarity,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>Gulzar Ahmed
Chaudhary<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></H2>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>General
Secretary<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>All Pakistan Trade Union
Federation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Palatino"><FONT size=3>14-N, Industrial Area,
Gulberg III, Lahore<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN
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