HYDERABAD, Aug 2: Around 80 Wapda employees from Sindh have refused to accept orders transferring to Balochistan.

Reliable sources told Dawn that employees who had received transfer orders for installing new grid stations, held a meeting on Monday and decided not to accept the orders on the grounds that according to rules a low-grade employee could not be transferred out of the province without his consent.

The meeting noted that the employees were being kidnapped in the province and even those who were already serving there had refused to go to sensitive areas. The meeting warned that if they were pressed further, they would resort to protests.

SPLA: The executive council of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA), which met on Tuesday, condemned the dismissal and issuance of show-cause notices to the office-bearers of the banned Sindh Employees Alliance.

The meeting presided over by the secretary general of Sindh Employees Alliance (SEA), Prof Liaquat Aziz, resolved to continue the protest and demanded that the president, prime minister, federal education minister, Sindh governor and chief minister intervene to get the ban removed.

Prof Aziz termed the Sindh education minister’s statement that people had welcomed the ban on associations as “illogical” and said that on the contrary, not a single political party or professional and social organisation or any member of the Sindh cabinet and PML-Q leader had welcomed the ban.

After the publication of a white-paper against her and her personal employee, Mansoor Qadir Junejo, the minister had forfeited the moral right to hold onto her post, he remarked.

He said that people had likened her decision to that of her father’s to support one unit, and warned that the teachers would never accept her arbitrary decision and continue to struggle till the unconstitutional step was taken back.