LAKKI MARWAT: Government employees, teachers and students on Monday held separate demonstrations in Lakki and Naurang towns to protest illegal occupation of a school hostel and delay in arrest of the killers of a Class-IV employee and attackers of a teacher.

In Lakki city, the all government employees’ coordination council took out a rally from government centennial model high school, which converged at Kargil chowk after passing through old kachery road. The council's president Saeed Akhtar, general secretary Haji Anwar Kamal and other employees’ leaders led the rally.

The protesters carried banners and placards inscribed with their demands. On the occasion, Maulana Tameezuddin and others said that a Class-IV employee of the education department, Haji Mirwali, who had been seriously wounded while resisting a robbery bid, later died at hospital due to alleged negligence of doctors.

The protesters led by all teachers association, district present Fareedullah Shah, general secretary Azeem Khan and Malgari Ustazan district president Gul Malook Khan Wazir held a demonstration on the GT Road in Naurang bazaar, blocking it with burning tyres.

The protesters also raised slogans against the illegal occupation of the hostel of government higher secondary school, Naurang. During the agitation, students also pelted stones at policemen and nearby shops and buildings, forcing the police to use batons to disperse them.

On the occasion, the teachers’ leaders said that the local administration didn’t take action against the occupants of the hostel.

Later, local MPA Haji Anwar Hayat Khan reached the said school and attended a meeting which decided to resolve the issue through negotiations.

Meanwhile, Naurang additional assistant commissioner told journalists that the administration would not allow anyone to occupy government land or building.

Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2014