April 25, 2008	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 18, 1429

SUKKUR, April 24: Dozens of Pakistan Railways workers staged a demonstration in front of the divisional superintendent’s office on Thursday in protest against non-payment of salary for three months.

The protesters who work on contract as gang men shouted slogans against railways authorities, blocked road for some time and pelted stones at the DS’s office.

They told the journalists that railway authorities had not paid them salaries for three months pushing their families to the brink of starvation. They demanded immediate release of salaries and regularisation of their services.

Meanwhile, scores of irrigation employees staged a rally and a demonstration on Minara Road on Thursday, seeking acceptance of their demands.

The protesters started the rally from Workshop Road and reached Minara Road after marching on the main roads shouting slogans against the irrigation department.

They told journalists that the authorities had put many of their demands on the back burner like implementation of son quota and allowance of Rs300 granted to them under Nawaz Sharif first tenure.

They said that residents of Irrigation Colony had been without water for many days but the authorities had not paid them any heed.

WOMAN KILLED: A man, Jameel Mazari, shot dead his brother’s wife Gul Jan over a petty domestic dispute in Shah Faisal Colony here on Thursday.