LAHORE: The All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union staged a rally on Thursday demanding the government lift ban on recruitment of staff to prevent tragic fatal and non fatal accidents.

Speaking on the occasion, union secretary general Khurshid Ahmad urged the government to check rising prices, abject poverty and aggravating unemployment, and demanded a raise in wages of the workers commensurate with price hike.

The union leader also demanded the federal minister for energy to allow payment of performance allowance to all employees of NTDC, Discos and Genco alike Wapda.

He also condoled the death of Pakistanis in the Greece boat disaster and demanded the prime minister to take strict action against human traffickers.

Published in Dawn, June 23rd, 2023