ISLAMABAD, July 1: Pakistan National Commission for Unesco (PNCU) has suspended its 14 employees apparently on charges of lackadaisical and subversive attitude towards service. PNCU is a sub-office of education ministry.

According to a press release, the PNCU administration through an order — F 2-9/90— issued on June 25 suspended the services of 14 out of the 24 employees.

Talking to Dawn, one of the affected employees accused the commission’s administration of bypassing the prescribed rules under which they were suspended. He said the suspended employees constituted 60 per cent of the total manpower.

The commission has issued letters to the suspended employees directing them to not visit the office and collect their salaries at home.

Those who have been suspended are, K A R Ghazi, grade 18, Gulzaman Khan, grade 17, Tasleem Hussain and Khushdil Khan, grade 16, Ramzan Basharat and Shan Mohammad, grade 15, Abdusalam, grade 12, Mohammad Jameel, grade 11, Ishtiaq Hussain, grade 7, Ansar Mehmood, grade 5, Ajab Khan and Mohammad Azad, drivers, Mohammad Iftikhar and Mohammad Afaq, office boys.

The suspended official alleged that a number of financial irregularities were being committed in the commission and as an attempt to hide their skeletons in the cupboard, the commission high-ups suspended them.