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HYDERABAD, June 10: The employees of the Sindhi Adabi Board continued their protest demonstration for the 8th consecutive day outside the Hyderabad Press Club on Tuesday against the SAB for not paying their salaries.
MPAs Nuzhat Pathan and Farzana Saeed also joined the employees’ protest to express solidarity with them.
The leaders of the employees union (CBA), Abdul Qadir Durrani and Aijaz Jafri, appealed to the Sindh governor and the chief minister, and the secretaries, Education and Finance, to save 86 families from starvation.
They regretted that the Sindh governor, the secretary, Education, and other authorities concerned had taken no notice of their predicament.
However, on the intervention of the district Nazim, Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman, the employees have deferred their protest upto June 13.
Mr Makhdoom is reported to have assured the employees that he would personally go to Karachi and meet with the authorities concerned to ensure that the salary amount of the employees was released.
The employees, however, made it clear that if they were not paid their four-month salaries, they would enlarge the scope of their protest.
SPLA: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has appealed to all the college teachers to support the struggle of the Sindhi Adabi Board employees who had not received their salaries for the last four months and their families were starving.
In a joint statement, senior SPLA leaders, Prof Liaquat Aziz, Prof Mohammad Siddique Unnar, Prof Anwar Pathan and others said that the college teachers had always supported the struggle of the workers and it was high time that writers, intellectuals and college teachers held protest demonstrations at the Taluka and district headquarters to support the just struggle of the employees.
