SUKKUR, Sept 3: The token hunger strike of the food department employees against non-regularization of their services employees and non-payment of three months salary continued on Wednesday outside the local press club.

The protesters’ leader, Abdul Rasheed Mahar, criticizing the negligence of the food department, said due to the wrong policies of the department, their families were starving. The district government had also neglected them, he complained.

He further said if their just demands were not fulfilled, the protest and hunger strike would continue.

The employees who are observing the strike include Ghulam Akbar, Gul Hassan, Ghulam Ali and others.

Meanwhile, employees of the union council, Setharja, also staged a rally and observed a token hunger strike on Tuesday against non-payment of salaries for the last three months and difference of the last seven months.

The taluka municipal officer issued a notice to the protesting employees to join their duties, threatening otherwise action would be initiated against them.