PESHAWAR, Aug 15: The provincial chapter of the All Pakistan Clerks Association has demanded that the surplus government employees be adjusted so that the prevailing uncertainty in their ranks comes to an end.

In a statement, the APCA provincial chief Mohammad Aslam Khan held the bureaucracy responsible for the delay in the adjustment of the employees. If they were not adjusted immediately, the APCA members would hold demonstrations and observe hunger strike along with their children, he added.

He said the APCA had time and again briefed the NWFP governor and the chief secretary on the issue, but to no avail. Now, they had decided to launch a protest drive to press for their demands.

Mr Khan said the government had rendered them jobless on the directives of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The recommendations of these institutions were against the national interests, he added.