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HYDERABAD, Feb 1: Dismissed female teachers of Hyderabad held token hunger strike outside the press club for the second consecutive day on Friday protesting against the termination of services of 66 primary school teachers.
The protesters were led by Ms Shagufta Rabab Jafri, Qamar Jehan, Yasmeen and Shabana.
The teachers were also protesting against the alleged disrespectful attitude of the secretary and the EDO, Education, Hyderabad.
Talking to newsmen they said that they had been kept on false hopes during the last three years but their patience had now exhausted.
They appealed to the Sindh governor that 66 female teachers of Hyderabad city whose services had been terminated in 1998 should be reinstated and their families should be saved from starvation.
A large number of teachers visited the hunger strikers’ camp and offered their full support to the dismissed female teachers.
ACTIVISTS: Activists of various political parties including the Sindh Taraqqi Passand Party, the Jeay Sindh Quami Mahaz, and minority leaders held a protest demonstration outside the Hyderabad Press Club on Friday against the killing of a minority leader, Sudham Chand Chawla, in Jacobabad.
Talking to newsmen, Mahesh Kumar, Dr. Asho Thama, Akash Mallah, and Chandar Babu recalled Mr Chawla’s role in the struggle for the introduction of joint electorate in the country.
They said that the minority voters would boycott any party which tried to protect the killers.
They said that Mr Chawla was a symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity.
They urged the political parties to take serious notice of the unrest among the Hindu community and expel the killers from their parties.
Dr. Asho called upon all the Panchayats of the province to launch an organized struggle against the killers of Mr Chawla.
They demanded the immediate arrest of the accused nominated in the FIR.
