Javed had come to Lund - as part of a Sweden tour - on invitation from the regional outfit of ABF, Sweden’s largest adult non-profit educational organisation and a collaboration partner of SASNET. His mission is to share his experiences from workers’ rights among brick kiln workers in Pakistan. Being born in a family of bonded labour working in the brick kilns around Lahore himself, but later being able to get proper education and have his family set free from the debt slavery, Javed is a strong proponent of mobilizing the disadvantaged groups in his home country, exploited workers, tribal groups etc. In Lund a public seminar was organised by the Fairtrade City Lund organisation. 
Javed was accompanied by Christoffer Sjöstrand from ABF MittSkåne, and met with SASNET deputy director Lars Eklund and communications officer Elina Vidarsson at SASNET’s new office in Villa Norlind at Biskopsgatan 5. They had a fruitful discussion on the issues BRIC highlights, and possible future common actvities such as organising seminars. 
As a side effect of the meeting, Christoffer Sjöstrand and the SASNET representatives agreed upon reviving the public brownbag seminars presenting Lund University’s South Asia research that ABF and SASNET organised during the period 2011-2013 at Lunds konsthall. A new series of lectures will be planned for the spring 2017. 
It should be added that during his stay in Sweden, Liaqat Javed also visits several other places - Gothenburg, Skara, Stockholm among others - and organisations with which BRIC has established collaboration, for example Swedewatch, with an interest in investigating working conditions in the surgical manufacturing industry in Pakistan. More than 150 million surgical instruments are produced in Pakistan every year and the global market value amounted to € 277 million in 2013-2014. Many of the instruments reach hospitals in Sweden through Swedish suppliers. More information on the procurement of surgical instruments and the developments in Pakistan in a Swedwatch report from February 2015. Go for it.