PESHAWAR, June 20: The Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Party has demanded allocation of funds for poverty alleviation, so that the widening gap between the affluent and the deprived can be reduced in the larger interest of the country. Speaking to party workers at Shakoor Kilay in Hashtnagar, PMKP President Afzal Khamosh said a handful of industrial and feudal families controlled all the resources of the country. Those families had backed successive dictators in the country to prolong their hold on national resources, he said.

He said the PMKP believed in class struggle, because the ruling groups were responsible for the present state of affairs. The rule of a minority comprising capitalists, feudal lords and civil and military bureaucrats had been imposed on Pakistan while the majority of the masses had been deprived of basic rights, he said.

He said that the PMKP would observe martyrs’ day on July 3 and pay homage to those who sacrificed their lives in Hashtnagar.

He said the PMKP had invited all the progressive parties to attend the gathering on the occasion.

He said a strong but tiny ruling class was controlling the economy of Pakistan while millions of people did not even have a permanent sources of income.