HYDERABAD, May 7: Wapda and Hesco employees on Wednesday held separate demonstrations outside various sub-divisional offices, including the revenue office, to protest against the inhuman atrocities unleashed by the Hesco administration against the workers.

Speaking on the occasion, the chairman, Line Superintendents Forum, Alladin Qaimkhani, said that all sorts of excesses were being committed against the Wapda employees. They were being sacked and demoted without a reason and the line superintendents, who were working round the clock, were being specially targeted.

He, however, said that the line superintendents were being sacked by the Hesco officials with just one stroke of the pen.

He said the employees had been protesting against these excesses for the last many days but no senior officials have taken notice of the predicament of the poor employees.

He said due to perpetual harassment, the workers were loosing their mental faculties.

He said that, on the one hand, the workers were being subjected to unlawful compulsory labour for 12 hours a day, and, on the other, they were insulted and humiliated.

He said the Hesco administration was trying to provoke the workers to take extreme steps.

He gave an ultimatum of 48 hours to the Hesco administration to reinstate sacked employees, failing which Hesco employees will besiege the company headquarters.

Mr Qaimkhani said they will record their protest at the open forum of the employees scheduled to be addressed by the Hesco chief, Brigadier (retd) Tariq Arshad, on Thursday and apprise him of the inhuman attitude of Hesco officials against the employees.

NURSES: The first year nursing students of the Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad and Jamshoro, on Wednesday boycotted their classes and held a protest demonstration outside the office of the medical superintendent and the nursing superintendent against the non-payment of monthly stipend for the last six months.