HYDERABAD, Dec 9: The All-Pakistan Trade Unions Organization has condemned registration of what it called false cases against workers of the Thatta Sugar Mills and demanded that the cases should be withdrawn forthwith and arrested union leaders be released.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the general-secretary of the Sindh chapter of the organization, Mehboob Ali Qureshi, and the divisional general-secretary, Mohammad Ashraf Rajput, supported the ongoing protest by workers of Dadu and Thatta sugar mills.
They said on the one hand families of workers were facing starvation and on the other, false cases were being registered against the Thatta mill workers who were demanding their rights by holding peaceful protest demonstrations. The organization leaders demanded that either Dadu and Thatta sugar mills should be made operational or workers be given golden handshake.
STPP: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has also condemned the arrest and torture of the workers and extended full support of his party to the workers in their peaceful struggle.
He was talking to a delegation of the Thatta Sugar Mills Workers Union (CBA), led by Syed Asadullah Shah, Sahib Khan Khoso and Dr Wali Jakhro, at the Taraqqi Pasand House here on Wednesday.
Dr Magsi said the mill had been lying closed for 10 years and many workers had committed suicides due to unemployment. He regretted that the rulers had taken no notice of the plight of the workers. He demanded that the Thatta Sugar Mills should be made operational and the arrested workers should be released forthwith.
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