NAWABSHAH: Clerks boycott offices

Published August 12, 2007

NAWABSHAH, Aug 11: Members of All Pakistan Clerks Association, Population Welfare Unit Nawabshah staged a demonstration for the acceptance of their demands outside the press club on Saturday. Protesters carrying banners and placards raised slogans against the government.

Deputy General Secretary Mohammad Luqman Bughio, Abu Bakar Khaskheli and others told reporters that recruitment in Sindh departments on political basis was illegal and unconstitutional.

They condemned the decision of awarding jobs to allied parties by the Sindh Chief Minster and said the employees recruited in 1998 were yet not regularised and demanded to do the same immediately, allow 50 per cent quota in jobs for deceased and retired staff and recruitments on merit.

BREACH PLUGGED: A-25 feet wide breach occurred in the RD-3 of Sakrand Minor, Dad Irrigation Division near Majeed Keerio village, on Friday.

The irrigation water had entered into the homes of Ghulam Mustafa Chandio and Billo Punjabi, besides damaging the standing sugarcane and cotton crops on over 100 acres.

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