Teachers threaten agitation movement

Published January 20, 2002

HUB, Jan 19: The Government Teachers Association of the Lasbela district on Saturday threatened to launch an agitation movement if the government did not fulfil their demands.

This was decided during a meeting, presided over by Mohammad Rafiq Baloch, the newly-elected chairman of the association.

The meeting observed that the government had closed all the ways of promotion of teachers and other government employees by putting a ban on selection grade and moveover.

GTA office-bearers said they would be a part of the agitation movement to be held in March if the government failed to restore their 40 per cent allowances.

killed: An elderly man was run over by a speeding coach at Jhaao More near Bela, about 150km of here, on Friday night.

Gamani, 50, son of Noor Mohammad, was crossing the main RCD Highway at Jhaao More when he was run over by the Quetta-bound coach. He died on the spot. The driver sped away from the scene. The body was taken to the Bela Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

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