ABBOTTABAD, March 7: Malik Naeem Awan, general-secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League (labour wing), has said the steps taken by the government were against the labourers and were a mere eyewash.

Speaking at a press conference at the Abbottabad Press Club on Thursday, he announced the cabinet of the PML-N’s provincial labour wing.  

The cabinet’s new members are senior vice-president Sikandar Khan Kiyalvi and vice-presidents Khawaja Abdur Rehman, Malik Sarwar Advocate, Haji Dawood and Aurangzeb Khan Jadoon.

Syed Hammad Hassan was appointed the secretary-general and Iqbal Khan  Afridi deputy general-secretary. Malik Aziz-ur-Rehman, Fida Muhammad, Lateef Abbasi and Abdul Jabbar Abbasi have been made joint secretaries.

Muhammad Khursheed Abbasi and Muhammad Ayub have been named as finance and office Secretaries, respectively.

Malik Naeem Awan, Samiullah Khan Jadoon, provincial president of the MSF (PML-N), and other office-bearers of the party demanded that labourers be involved in the process of privatization of organizations.

They criticized the government policies of downsizing and rightsizing, saying that hundreds of thousands of labourers were being rendered jobless.

Polls symbols: Election symbols were allotted to the candidates for by-election on the seat of Nazim of union council of Nawansher which had fallen vacant after the election of Nazim as Zila Nazim.

Polling will be held on March 16, for which four candidates are in the run. They are Mohammad Iqbal, Qazi Inamullah, Raja Khalid and Major (retd) Gulzar.

Returning officer Civil Judge Abbottabad Faqeer Rehman Khan Jadoon has finalized the arrangements for the by-election.