HYDERABAD, May 4: A large number of Wapda/Hesco employees held a protest demonstration outside the press club on Sunday against Hesco officials for treating them inhumanly and subjecting them to unlawful compulsory labour.

The demonstration was held under the banner of the Pakistan Wapda Employees Pegham Union.

Addressing the protesters, the Pegham union leaders, Malik Mohammad Yousuf, Nawaz Ali Jakhrani, Anwar Naeem Khan and Khalid Mehmood Khanzada said that Hesco officials, in order to hide their own inefficiency, were victimizing workers and even dismissing them from service.

They said that while the problems of the workers were lying in cold storage since the last many years, it took the Hesco administration only two weeks to terminate their services.

They said the workers were made to work overtime without any additional payment and due to mental torture the number of accidental deaths was on the increase.

They said that some unconscionable officers, in order to cover their crimes and please senior officials, were imposing penalties on the poor employees in the shape of detection bills.

They said that the Hesco head office had been declared a no-go-area for at least 2,000 employees of Sindh, and added that the poor employees could not visit their own head office to get their problems resolved.

They demanded that the employees should stop being victimized, the dismissed workers should be reinstated, the outstanding dues of the workers should be paid without delay and the imposition of penalty on the poor employees should be stopped.

The union leaders further demanded that the retrenchment of the Lakhra powerhouse employees and the conspiracy to close the power house should be stopped.

They warned that if Hesco officials did not change their attitude, the employees would be forced to besiege their offices.

DATE EXTENDED: The director, admissions, University of Sindh, has extended the date for submitting forms for admission to MA, English, final, evening programme, up to May 25.