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| July 8, 2002 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 26,1423 |
Sacked PTCL employees seek reinstatement
GUJRANWALA, July 7: At least 57 sacked employees of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited have threatened to set up a hunger strike camp outside the PTCL headquarters in Islamabad if they are not reinstated within a week.
At a meeting held here on Sunday, they said that they had been recruited in 1990 as daily wagers and were regularized on Sept 27, 1997. Since then they had been working at various telephone exchanges and PTCL offices regularly, they said.
Some two months ago, they said, the PTCL authorities had de-regularized them without any justification. They alleged that PTCL senior officers recruited their relatives on these posts without any merit.
They pointed out that the administrative member had constituted a committee for reviewing their cases. Some two months ago committee members, they said, had collected all documents and their statements regarding their service, but no decision of their reinstatement had so far been taken.
They said families members of 57 houses were facing financial hardships due to their unemployment while their children were deprived of education and health facilities.
FIVE KILLED: Five people, including two elderly women, were killed while 25 others sustained injuries, two of them serious, in road accidents in and around the city here on Sunday.
Muhammad Zaman died instantly while 25 other passengers of a bus suffered injuries when it collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite side on Hafizabad Road. The injured were rushed to the local DHQ Hospital from where Shahid and Tauqir Abbas were shifted to Mayo Hospital, Lahore, for their serious condition.
Sharifan Bibi of Tetley village was waiting for a bus on the Sheikhupura Road when a speeding coaster knocked her down. She died on the spot.
Muhammad Hafeez of Ghumanwala village was killed instantly when he was hit by a speeding bus on the Sheikhupura Road. He was crossing the road.
Ghulam Fatima of Dhaunkel, Wazirabad, was injured seriously by a Rawalpindi-bound bus when she was on her way to Kot Khizri along the road. She died on the way to the THQ Hospital, Wazirabad.
Muhammad Bashir of Atawa village was run over by a speeding tractor-trolley on the GT Road near Chand Da Qila By-pass. He was crossing the road and died on the spot.
Police have registered cases and are investigating.
RESENTMENT: The Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association, Government College’s Gujranwala unit, voiced their concern for not arresting the culprits involved in attacking and injuring the college professor, Nazir Ahmad.
At a meeting held here on Sunday presided over by Association President Prof Mahboob Ahmad, participants Prof Muhammad Sharif, Prof, Rana Tariq, Prof Azam and Prof Mukhtar Cheema said 10 days had passed but the police could not arrest the culprits.
They said inaction on the part of police had created unrest among the teaching staff of educational institutions who felt themselves unsecured.
The meeting demanded through a unanimous resolution that the accused should be arrested immediately and be tried in an anti-terrorism court.
CAUGHT: At least a dozen farmers of Wahando, Naushera Virkan and Kamoke were caught red-handed on Sunday while stealing canal water by a joint raiding team of police and irrigation.
Police have registered cases against them.
ARRESTED: Saddar police on Sunday claim to have arrested two more killers of five family members of Jandiala Baghwala village.
Yousaf and Saifullah were present at their hideout near the village when police on a tip-off raided there and arrested them. Police also recovered illicit arms from their possession. A few days ago, police have already arrested four accused involved in the crime.
The accused had killed five people over the issue of lifting earth from fields some two weeks ago.
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