LAHORE: A large number of government employees on Thursday took out a procession from Nasser Bagh to the Civil Secretariat on the call of the All Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca) to press for their demands of better wages.

Similar processions were held in front of the offices of all the district coordination officers across Punjab, claimed a press release.

Apca leaders, Sultan Mujaddadi, Muhammad Afzal, Abdul Shakoor and Nadeem Chughtai, said all the roads in Lahore would be blocked on May 7 if Apca demands were not met. This would be followed by a siege of the Punjab Assembly on May 14.

They urged the chief minister to take care of the government employees, giving them wages as per the inflation rate.

Published in Dawn, April 24th, 2015

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