PESHAWAR April 6: On an assurance given by NWFP Minister for Science and Technology Hussain Ahmad Kanju, the associations of secretariat employees called off their strike on Thursday.

The minister gave the assurance during a meeting with office-bearers of the associations at his office here on Thursday.

The minister told the secretariat employees that he would arrange a meeting of their leaders with Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani for solving their genuine problems.

He said that orders regarding termination of secretariat employees would be withdrawn and action would be taken against the police officials involved in manhandling of the employees.

Later, while addressing the employees, Mr Kanju said that peaceful demonstration for solution of genuine problems was democratic right of any citizen but no law permited violence or damage to public property.

The office-bearers of the employees thanked the minister for taking keen interest in their problems, playing role of a bridge between them and the government and conveying their grievances to the CM.

—PPI