LAHORE, Pakistan: In a bid to pay tributes to the prominent veteran social worker, trade unionist and founding member of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) Karamat Ali who passed away on June 20, 2024, Comrade Karamat Ali’s Memorial Reference was held in Lahore on Sunday.
Rich tributes were paid to Comrade Karamat Ali for his all-round contribution to the communist movement, working people’s rights, democracy, human rights and peace.
Over a dozen speakers shared their experiences and appreciation for an outstanding leader who fought for political democracy and socialism throughout his life.
Karamat Ali died in Karachi at the age of 78 after a protracted illness. He spent almost his entire life as a rights activist. He gained his inspiration from Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and the writings of Mao Zedong.
An active member of a student union while doing his intermediate from the Government Emerson College in Multan in 1962, Karamat Sahab got his first big exposure to politics when General Ayub Khan’s government imposed a ban on student unions.
