HYDERABAD, July 5: The Pakistan Wapda Hydro-Electric Central Labour Union has threatened to suspend power supply to the whole country if the plan for privatisation of Wapda was not dropped and problems of employees were not solved.

At a function held here on Tuesday night in honour of the central general secretary of the union, Khursheed Ahmed, union leaders rejected the recent increase in salary of employees.

The central president of the union, Abdul Latif Nizamani and Khursheed Ahmed, termed the increase in wages of employees as peanuts.

They demanded that salary should be increased commensurate with the rate of inflation.

They condemned an inordinate increase in emoluments and perks of government functionaries and demanded that similar facilities should be granted to workers.

Iqbal Qaimkhani, Mir Khan Baloch, Malik Sultan and Qazi Saleem Anwar spoke on the occasion.

They said that whenever people try to steal electricity through the kunda system and are electrocuted, Wapda employees are pilloried.

They said that this was simply unacceptable.

They demanded that the blackest draconian law, Presidential Ordinance 2000, should be repealed immediately to eliminate unrest among workers.