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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: cambria,serif;">TheNetwork, which is monitoring Tobacco Industry’s promotional activities and marketing tactics, organized a press conference with tobacco farmers of Swabi (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) to expose the exploitation of tobacco farmers’ community and violation of human rights by tobacco industry. The conference was held on July 21, 2012 at National Press Club Islamabad along with farmers’ representative body; the Farmer Coordination Council. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: cambria,serif;">The farmers’ community called for Federal Government to devise a comprehensive policy to facilitate farmers to move towards alternatives of tobacco crop.</span></p>