KARAK: The united workers welfare association has demanded of the oil and gas exploration companies operating in Karak district to increase the monthly wages of workers to Rs15,000 and regularise their jobs.

The demand was made by leaders of the labour union, including its chairman Naveed Iqbal, president Iqbal Khan Khattak, general secretary Taj Mohammad and others, at a press conference here on Wednesday.

They said the last provincial government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had fixed Rs15,000 monthly salary for labourers, but the oil and gas companies were not implementing the decision. They said it was mandatory for the companies to follow the government directions.

They also demanded regularisation of workers’ jobs.

The labour leaders threatened to stage protests if the companies failed to meet their demands.

THREE WOMEN INJURED: Three women of a family sustained injuries when a rival group opened fire on their house over an old enmity in Sangani area of Karak tehsil on Wednesday.

Police said the injured women were taken to the district headquarters hospital, Karak, where condition of two of them was stated to be serious.

The relatives of the injured registered FIR in Karak police station against three accused.

Police, who claimed the rival groups had an old enmity, started further investigation into the case.

FUMIGATION DEMANDED: The residents of Karak city have demanded fumigation in the urban area and its outskirts as they complained of malaria outbreak in the area.

Talking to mediapersons, they said stagnant water was providing breeding place for mosquitoes and demanded that the tehsil municipal administration carry out anti-malarial spray in the urban locality and also make arrangements for drainage of stagnant water.

They said the health department had carried out fumigation in other areas but not the Karak city for unknown reasons.

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2018