January 13, 2009	Tuesday	Muharram 15, 1430

HYDERABAD, Jan 12: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association on Monday asked the 330 ad hoc lecturers, terminated en bloc by the government, to continue to perform their duties as the association would chalk out its future course of action to resolve the problem after Jan 15.

In a joint statement, association leaders Prof Liaquat Aziz, Prof Muzaffar Rizvi and Prof Yaqoob Chandio demanded that the ad hoc lecturers should be regularised like their counterparts in Balochistan, Punjab and the NWFP and they be released immediately their three months salary.

They said that they failed to understand why the candidates who had passed examinations held by the Sindh Public Service Commission for the post of lecturers were not being given posting orders and why the services of ad hoc lecturers were not being regularised when the posts of more than 2,500 lecturers were lying vacant in 242 colleges of the province.