Pakistan’s other Story: The 1968-9 Revolution

Lal Khan was born at Bhutan, Pakistan in 1956. He joined Nishtar medical College, Multan in 1975 where, he was elected general secretary of the student’s union, against the fundamentsl forces in 1978. He was arrested and tortured in 1979 under the Zia-ul-Haq military dictatorship for leading a student’s agitation against the despotic regime. Aftyer his release, he was forcibly migrated to Rawal Pindi medical College. Here again due to his revolutionary struggle against the regime he was ordered to be shot at sight by the military command council on 10th May 1980. He was severely injured but managed to flee the country and reached Amsterdam, Holland. He continued his studies at the university of Amsterdam. In the mean time he was actively involved in organizing movement against the military dictatorship from exile. He was one of the founders of the paper: Class Struggle”, the first issue of which came out in November 1980. He returned to {Pakistan in October 1987 and has since been the political editor of the class struggle (Urdu) and editor of the Asian Marxist review. Lal Khan is the pen name of the author as he wrote most of his works under a brutal dictatorship, in clandestine conditions.