SWABI: Pakistan Workers Federation (PWF) leaders on Tuesday demanded that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government implement labour laws in the industry to secure the rights of labourers.

Speaking at a meeting here, they noted that the workers were backbone of the industry and country’s economy, but when they did not enjoy due status in the society how the dream of a strong economy could be materialised.

They said the government should adopt a mechanism to bind the entrepreneurs to shun exploitation of workers and give them their due rights as per the labour laws.

The labourers’ leaders noted that the workers had been deprived of social security, the right to constitute unions and have eight-hour duty, overtime and weekly leave.

Shaukat Ali Anjum, PWF’s national coordinator, said the government’s plan to privatise some institutions would be fully resisted by the trade union leaders and workers because such a policy was not acceptable to them.

Shad Khan, PWF’s provincial president, said the workers were united against the exploitative tactics of the industrialists.

TWO GO MISSING: A teenage boy has been missing from Marghuz village, said a police official on Tuesday.

He said Kamran Khan’s parents told police that he had been missing for last four days.

Meanwhile, Luqman Khan, 14, has also gone missing from his house in Parmuli village. His parents told police that they had no enmity with anyone.

KISAN MARKET OPENS: Deputy commissioner Shahid Mehmood and other officials on Tuesday inaugurated a Kisan market in Tordher.

The officials said local farmers would be facilitated to sell their produce without paying any tax at the farmer market.

They said such markets were meant to encourage growers to make the province self-sufficient in food requirements.

Published in Dawn, November 13th, 2019