November 24, 2008	Monday	Ziqa'ad 25, 1429

HYDERABAD, Nov 23: A group of ad hoc lecturers on a call from their action committee, held a demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday to protest against termination of their service.

Speaking on the occasion, Mohammad Ismail, Kamran, Zulfiqar, Ms Asma Shaikh and others said that although 2,000 posts of lecturers were vacant in different colleges of the province, yet the services of 861 ad hoc lecturers who had already served for three years were being terminated.

They said their salaries had been withheld for four months. To protest against the injustice, they said, they would hold a demonstration outside the Sindh Assembly on November 24 and if justice was not done to them, they would hold a similar demonstration outside the Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad and resort to hunger strike unto death.

They regretted that although Sindh education minister had publicly announced on more than one occasion that the services of ad hoc lecturers will be regularised but he had now reneged on his promises

They lamented that while the services of ad hoc lecturers had been regularised in other provinces, the lecturers of Sindh were being meted out step-motherly treatment.