LARKANA, May 8: Clerks of different government departments took out a procession here on Thursday, demanding that the government should lift the ban on recruitment and ensure equal share in jobs to the provinces in federal departments.

Led by the president, All Pakistan Clerks Association, Larkana, Sabir Soomro, and others, the procession after marching through the main roads of the city reached the local press club.

Speaking on the occasion, the protesters’ leaders criticized the government for not giving corporation allowance to employees of Larkana.

They said closed industrial units should be restarted so that youths could be provided with jobs.

They further demanded that Sindh should be given its due share of water.

Meanwhile, All Sindh Retired Government Servants Welfare Association president Nabi Bakhsh Mangi, in a statement issued on Thursday, called upon the government to raise the pension amount.

INJURED: A man, Imdad Gopang, and his grandmother, Rani, were injured on Thursday when some unidentified men barged into their house in the Kambar and opened fire on them.

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