Karamat Ali

Karamat Ali, a founder member and currently Executive Director, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), is a veteran trade unionist who played an important role in the labour movement of the 1970s and since then has been committed to labour rights, education and regional peace advocacy and research. Karamat Ali has been a key activist in the peace process between India and Pakistan and in the South Asian Region as a whole. He is one of the founding members of the people’s SAARC, and a number of regional peace coalitions. Karamat Ali was felicitated with the Didi Nirmala Deshpandae South Asian award for peace and justice in 2013, in recognition of his lifelong efforts for South Asian peace.