BAJAUR: Workers of tehsil municipal administration, Khar, on Tuesday started boycott of duties to protest nonpayment of their salaries for the last one year and delay in regularisation of their services.

They started boycott of duties hours after their protest demonstration held outside the tehsil municipal officer’s office in Khar, which was attended by scores of workers.

It was third such demonstration of TMA workers during last several days. The protesters said that about 45 employees had been working at the tehsil municipal administration, previously called Khar municipal committee, since December 2014.

They said that after the merger of tribal districts with the province the Khar municipal committee was replaced by tehsil municipal administration last year while services of some of its officials had also been regularised.

However, they added that services of score of employees, including drivers, cleaners and clerks, could not be regularised as yet while their salaries had been suspended for the last one year.

Speaking on this occasion, Raees Khan, Bilal Khan, Khursheed Khan, Israr Khan and Azizur Rahman termed suspension of their salaries unjustified.

They claimed that the Peshawar High Court had also directed the provincial government last year to regularise their services.

They said that the government had already regularised services of most TMA workers in the tribal districts, including Waziristan and Kurram districts.

Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2020