KARACHI, March 11: Pakistan Steel workers have demanded that the chief of the mills be sacked and a high level judicial probe into the financial affairs of the organization be initiated.

Speaking at a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Monday, leaders of the newly formed Joint Action Committee of Pakistan Steel Employees said that an FIR of the June 2001 accident, which left many workers dead and crippled, be registered and action be taken on the references that had been sent to NAB against the steel mills chief.

“The inquiries that are being carried out and charge-sheets which have been issued to workers be abolished,” they demanded, adding that a large number of women teachers who had been transferred to the plant be sent back to the educational duties.

They demanded withdrawal of recent increase in the house rents and school fees and restoration of medical facilities, besides implementation of the revised pay-scales.

About the demonstration on March 8, they maintained that the step was taken as the steel mills management was not implementing the agreement which was agreed upon in January after the intervention of City Nazim Naimatullah Khan.

Mohammad Mohsin, Shamshad Qureshi, Zafar Khan, Nisar Shar, Pasha Ahmad Gul, Sattar Butt and others spoke.