SIALKOT, May 27: The Muttahida Mahaz-i-Asataza Pakistan has urged the government to increase by 100 per cent the salaries of teachers’ in the forthcoming budget.

The demand was raised by Mahaz president Raja Zafeer Ahmad Sitti on Tuesday. He was speaking at a meeting of the Gujranwala division office-bearers of the Punjab Teachers Union here.

He said teachers from the Punjab, Sindh, NWFP, Balochistan and AJK would stage a sit-in in front of Parliament House in Islamabad on June 4, if their eight-point charter of demands would not be accepted.

PTU’s Information Secretary Abdul Rasheed Nagra said the government was denying hundreds of thousands of teachers of their rights to selection grade, additional promotions and move-over.

He said the government should rationalize the salary structure of teachers.