HYDERABAD: Employees of the Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) have threatened to disrupt supplies across the country if the federal government does not stop working on a plan to privatise the company.

Speaking at a press conference at the local press club on Wednesday, OGDC Mazdoor Ittehad Union office-bearers Sain Bukhsh, Syed Aijaz Bukhari, Shabbir Halai and others expressed their deep concern over the government’s policy of privatising key national institutions.

They said the OGDC was one of the few companies of the country that had been earning profits to the tune of billions of rupees every year. They criticised the federal government for evolving a plan to privatise it and warned that the move was against the national interest.

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Thousands of OGDC workers across the country would stop oil and gas production and disrupt supplies from all fields if the government did not do away with the plan to privatise the company, they warned.

They appealed to all political forces, especially the Pakistan Peoples Party, to play their role in safeguarding the interests of the country and those of OGDC workers.

They announced that OGDC workers would stage a sit-in outside the parliament on Aug 27 and at the Ghotki oil fields on Sept 4.

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2014