LARKANA, Sept 1: The executive committee of the Sindh Highways Employees Union met here on Sunday and demanded that the provincial government should lift the ban on fresh recruitments.

Speakers at the meeting said that the government was deliberately keeping the ban on fresh appointments.

It was decided in the meeting that a province-wide protest movement would be launched, as relying on promises of the government would bear no fruit.

The first phase of protest would begin from Larkana on Sept 3 the and the final protest meetings would be held in Nawabshah and Sanghar on 17.

In the second phase, hunger strikes would be observed throughout the province to press for the demands and in the final phase roads would be blocked, said Manzoor Ahmed Aheer, general-secretary of the union.

Union patron-in-chief Amir Bakhsh Lashari presided over the meeting. Faqeer Ayoub Behan, Qalandar Bakhsh Mugheri, Ghulam Rasool Larik, Ali Murad Chandio, Aitbar Gopang, Ali Nawaz Mangriyo, Mohammed Moryal Panhwar and others spoke on the occasion.