HYDERABAD, Aug: 13: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party will launch a campaingn for reinstatement of the retrenched local workers of the Star Cotton Factory, Mehrabpur.

The STPP Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi held out this assurance to the office-bearers of the Peoples Labour Union, Mehrabpur, who called on him at the Taraqqi Pasand House here on Tuesday.

The delegation of the workers, comprising general secretary of the union, Mohammad Siddiq Soomro, and others, told Dr Magsi that the prejudiced general manager of the factory, Haji Ghulam Mustafa Watto, had terminated the services of 69 local employees, imported workers from Punjab and appointed them at the vacant posts.

The STPP chief said that according to conventions of the International Labour Organization, the first priority was to be given to the local people for employment in government and private organizations but the international conventions were not being followed in Sindh.