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MIANWALI, Dec 21: The teachers’ community continued their strike for the second consecutive day here on Thursday to press the government for the acceptance of their demands.
Teachers started their march in the morning from schools carrying banners and chanting slogans against the government. They gathered at Jehaz Chowk, where they had already set up a token hunger strike camp on Wednesday.
Speaking on the occasion, SES president Raufullah Khan said the army was afraid of performing duties at borders to defend the motherland and now they had made their entry into schools in the form of monitoring teams. He called upon the headmasters not to allow them in their schools.
Other leaders demanded teaching and science allowances, advance grades on higher qualification and disbandment of monitoring teams. After a six-hour token strike, the teachers dispersed peacefully.
A large number of people had also gathered at the chowk to show their sympathies with teachers and chanted slogans against the government.
GUJRANWALA: All academic activities remained suspended for the second consecutive day here on Thursday as teachers continued their strike for the acceptance of their demands.
Teachers held a protest meeting outside the Government Iqbal High School on GT Road and displayed banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the government.
Addressing the protesters, Muttahida Mahaz Asataza district chairman Qazi Azmatullah, M Arif Khokhar, Nazer Muhammad Cheema and Muhammad Ibrahim Saqi expressed their resentment over the attitude of the government for not paying them teaching allowance.
They asked Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to fulfill his promise and pay them allowance at the earliest.
They criticised introduction of monitoring system, spending millions of rupees on it.
They demanded that teaching allowance should be paid to all teachers without any discrimination while the government should convene a meeting of those 12 members who were inducted by the prime minister for the purpose.
They said the fifth phase of their strike would start after Eidul Azha if the government did not announce payment of allowance till the end of December.
