MITHI, May 22: The employees of district council Tharparkar continued their hunger strike outside the local press club. Protesting against the decision to send them in surplus pool, they called upon the chief minister and the Sindh chief secretary to adjust them at the posts lying vacant in the councils of Thar to pay 36 month salary to 106 such employees.

The hunger strikers including Ghulam Rasool, Abdul Ghani and Suleman told newsmen that although 17 secretaries were working in 44 union councils of Thar and many posts were lying vacant, the district government had sent these employees in surplus pool.

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