HYDERABAD, July 17: The chairman, All Pakistan Technical Draftsmen Federation, Hafiz Matloob Ahmed Chishti, has appealed to the Sindh chief minister to issue early posting orders of local government/public health engineering Sindh employees against the vacant posts.

In a statement issued on Thursday, he said that a proposal in this regard had already been submitted by the secretary and minister local government/public health engineering.

He said the employees were facing financial hardships as they had not been paid their salaries for the last four months and their families were facing starvation.

He said he had been informed by the employees that the summary was lying in the chief minister’s office for his approval, and added that the poor employees should be given their posting orders against clear vacancies.—Bureau

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