May 05, 2008	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 28, 1429

SUKKUR, May 4: Teachers of primary schools run by the National Commission for Human Development staged a demonstration in Mirpur Mathelo on Sunday in protest against non-payment of salary for the past six months.

The teachers, led by Abdul Majeed Abbasi, Irshad Ali Bozdar and Nazim Hussain Pitafi, were shouting slogans against the commission officials for withholding their salary.

They told journalists that the commission had hired 1,019 teachers for its primary schools in different areas of Ghotki district and paid them Rs1,500 every month. However, they added, 48 teachers were not being paid salary over the past six months.

They called upon the Sindh government to take over the schools run by the commission and pay their teachers salary and other benefits being given to the teachers of government primary schools.

FIRE: Ten huts with household items, 12 goats and stocks of grain were gutted when fire broke out at an agricultural farm at Sangi-Dubber turning near Pano Akil on Sunday.

Fire broke out in the hut of a peasant and engulfed the nearby huts.