HYDERABAD, Feb 15: The Hyderabad Citizens Action Committee for Women’s Rights staged a protest rally outside the press club here on Saturday against the possible US-led attack on Iraq.
Speaking at the rally, leaders of the committee, Ayaz Latif Palijo, Dr Dado Mehri, M. Parkash, Tehmina Baloch and others, called upon the people to reject war and raise their voice in the cause of peace.
They stressed the need for resolving all the issues through negotiations as they said war could never solve problems.
BANK EMPLOYEES: A group of employees of the United Bank Limited, under the banner of the Employees and Officers Front, observed token hunger strike outside the press club here on Saturday against what they called wrong policies of the bank administration.
Carrying banners and placards, inscribed with different demands, the employees raised slogans against the bank administration.
Talking to newsmen, their leaders, Shabbir Ahmad and Malik Tanvir Ahmad, said due to anti-workers policies of the bank president, 1,072 employees would be rendered jobless.
They deplored 103 persons of other areas had been appointed as consultants by the bank.
They warned they would hold protest demonstrations throughout the province if the consultants were not removed.
SPLA: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has hailed the Sindh government decision to declare computer science an optional subject for intermediate students, appearing in the annual examinations.
The SPLA, at a meeting held here on Saturday, deplored that although the SPLA had always extended cooperation to improve quality of education, yet it had never been asked to participate in policy making.
It pointed out that several colleges of Sindh were facing problems like shortage of teachers.
