KARACHI, May 24: Two ambulance drivers were killed and 80 others injured while a total of 112 ambulances were damaged, 40 of them completely, during violent incidents in the city over the past six years.
This was stated by Makhdoom Mohammad Ayub Qureshi, a central leader of the Pakistan Trade Unions Federation (PTUF) in a statement issued on Thursday. He wondered that while awards were given by the government to various people for their exceptional performance, ambulance drivers were always ignored although they deserved the awards for risking their lives in the line of their duty to serve the humanity.
Most recently, he recalled, an Edhi Foundation driver Faizur Rehman was shot dead on May 12. He regretted that the government did not give any award to such people even on the country’s national day. He called for a suitable compensation to be paid to the heirs of the victims.
HOLIDAYS: Leaders of the National Trade Union Federation Pakistan (NTUFP) Shafiq Ghauri and Qasim Anwar said here on Thursday that May 12 and 14 had been declared as ‘public holidays’ but no notification was issued to this effect.
They said that employers would use the pretext of non-issuance of the notification to mark their employees absent and might also deduct their wages. He demanded issuance of necessary directives in this regard to employers.
