After a process of consultation with and between various civil society organizations and individuals, The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan (ISM PAK) has been established at Hyderabad Sindh, Pakistan. 

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The ISM PAK will be an initiative and attempt to cater, support and strengthen the existing and potential social movements around rights and related issues, peace and economic self reliance of the masses.     

The niche to establish ISM PAK lays in the socio-economic,  political realities and development landscape of the country in which we think that unless rights agenda led by people’s movements and the issues contributing to the collectivism and integrated development initiatives based on the basic values of liberties and liberations of individuals and of collectives in the social, economic and cultural realms is not made a core strategy of the civil society initiatives in the country, it will become a distant trait to create favorable environment for socially, economically and culturally liberated and empowered man, women, children, youth, religious and ethnic minorities and vulnerable classes.         

Primarily, five civil society organizations based in various districts of Sindh have signed MoU between each other and with ISM PAK to further the cause of strengthening social movements around rights, peace and economic self reliance and creating integratedness and synergy in their initiatives, hence, have become founding affiliated organizations of the ISM PAK. These organizations include Participatory Village Development Program (PVDP), Sami Foundation, Naujawan Sindh Samaji Sangat, Dharti Development Society and Young Samaji Tanzeem.  

The districts, in which the ISM PAK has initially started its grounding initiatives includes Tharparkar, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Tando Allahyar, Badin, Jamshoro, Dadu, Naushehro Feroz and Shikarpur.

We hope the institute will contribute for the development of the marginalized.  

Sincerely,

Zulfiqar Shah

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Executive Director
The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan
B 9, Naseem Nagar Phase IV, Qasimabad,
Hyderabad 71000, Sindh, Pakistan
Phone: +92 22 2654905 Fax: +92 22 2654605
Cell: +92 321 308 702 4 / +92 333 464 888 1
Email: zulfiqar@ismpak.org l  shahzulf@yahoo.com
www.ismpak.org