TIMERGARA: Members of the All Pakistan Clerks’ Association, Lower Dir, on Thursday observed a pen-down strike and held a rally in Chakdara here against the assistant commissioner of Adenzai for behaving badly with a senior clerk and sending him to jail.

The clerks working in offices, schools, colleges and courts boycotted duty across Lower Dir district and gathered in Chakdara.

They claimed that Adenzai AC Mohammad Suhaib Butt misbehaved with assistant Akbar Khan before locking him up at Chakdara police station and sending him to Timergara jail. The protesters marched on the road until they reached the Chakdara Press Club.

APCA Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president Mohammad Shair, district general secretary Mohammad Salim, former MPA Bakht Baidar Khan and others addressed the rally. They demanded of the chief minister and chief secretary to immediately order replacement of the Adenzai AC and unconditional release of the arrested assistant.

Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2018