This article from the English daily DAWN in Pakistan explains that the team of doctors coming with the Indian relief delegation to go along with MP Manzoor Ahmed and the Revolutionary Solidarity Caravan have been denied access to Pakistan. This clearly exposes the rottenness of the Musharraf regime and shows how little the dictatorship is concerned about the victims of the earthquake.
On Friday, October 14, Comrade Manzoor Ahmed, Member of Parliament and PTUDC president, held a press conference at the Lahore Press Club announcing the launching of the PTUDC solidarity caravan, called “The Revolutionary Solidarity Caravan”. Manzoor also announced his programme of demands for the aftermath of the earthquake and criticised the Musharraf government's handling of the disaster.
On October 7th, on a day of torrential rain, a delegation of trade unionists and supporters of the Marxist tendency within Rifondazione Comunista, FalceMartello picketed the Iranian consulate in Milan, Italy to protest against the repression of the workers in Iran and to make the Iranian authorities understand clearly that "The workers in Iran are not alone!"