ABBOTTABAD, Sept 12: More than 250 employees of Kakul Phosphate Project, Abbottabad, have demanded compensation and other benefits given to the employees of Sarhad Development Authority.

In their appeals to the president of Pakistan and NWFP governor, they said they were waiting for all the retirement benefits since 1996 when the project was closed down.

Kakul Phosphate, run and operated by the Sarhad Development Authority, was supplying raw material to the NFC for manufacturing of super phosphate. The plant, with a total grinding capacity of 57,000 tones annually, was installed by the British govt. It was closed down by the NWFP government in 1996.

The employees of the project were not paid any financial benefits except for the gratuity against Indemnity Bonds for not claiming any other benefits, “which was an unfair labour practice,” charged the spokesman of the affectees. On the other hand, all the employees of the SDA are being paid full benefits, he said.—Correspondent