ISLAMABAD, June 9: The workers’ action committee of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) deferred on Thursday its decision to resume strike and 22 of its 27 members who had gone to their respective stations on Tuesday returned to Islamabad to work out a new line of action for talks with the government.

Meanwhile, a press release issued by the PTCL management said that no strike was observed by workers on Wednesday, either at the headquarters in Islamabad or anywhere else in the country.

The management described newspaper reports about workers having resumed their strike on Wednesday as “baseless and one-sided”.

A spokesman for the workers’ committee told Dawn that the strike plan had been postponed only for the time being.

He said three members of the committee were holding talks with the government at the interior ministry.

He said the committee would not hold talks on Friday and instead would convene its own meeting to prepare a new plan for stopping the privatization of the company.