KARACHI, May 12: MNA Sher Mohammad Baloch has demanded immediate reinstatement of all the sacked and forcefully retired employees of the Pakistan Steel.

Speaking at a press conference held at the press club on Monday, he said that a professional person should be appointed to head the biggest national industrial entity and a high level enquiry be initiated into the financial affairs of the mills.

He threatened to go on hunger strike in the National Assembly along with other parliamentarians if the demands were not fulfilled.

He demanded that the funds allocated under the head of non- development expenses should be directed towards the repairing of the PS plants, instead of construction and renovation of ponds, cricket grounds and parks.

He said that an FIR should be registered against the people responsible of purchasing substandard aluminium which resulted into the death of nine workers in the June 6, 2001, mishap.

He said that departments of education, medical, transport, security, food plant, etc., should be made fully operational and all the staff be re-posted.

He said that the mills’ management was making claims about huge profit, but in fact the amount was being generated by slashing the size of the work force by 40 per cent; selling mills’ valued assets by showing them to be useless and disposing of the finished good at extremely reduced rates to get fast cash.

He informed that the PS workers had approached the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, NAB, FIA, and others law-enforcement agencies regarding the rampant corruption in the mills, but no action had been taken.

He warned that if corrective steps were no taken immediately, the biggest industrial concern of the country would be ruined.