KARACHI, Aug 16: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has announced that teachers would hold protest meetings at over 238 colleges in the province on Aug 17 against the ban on teachers’ associations.

According to the SPLA announcement, condemnation resolutions will be adopted at these meetings and would be sent to higher authorities.

Meanwhile, a delegation of Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association on Wednesday called on Sindh Local Government Adviser Waseem Akhtar and Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Muhammad Hussain and sought their support in struggle against the ban on teachers’ unions.

SPLA delegation, led by its President Prof Syed Riaz Ahsan, apprised Muttahida leaders of education department’s notification through which it had banned activities of teachers associations in the province and warned them of strict action in case any teacher was found involved in any kind of protest.—PPI