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LARKANA, May 9: The fate of 600 ad hoc lecturers in Sindh hangs in balance, as their service had neither been regularised nor have they been paid salary since January. In a statement here on Wednesday, the ad hoc lecturers action committee, said that their salaries were stopped as the Sindh chief minister had not approved the summary of their regularisation.
Two months ago, the provincial education minister, Dr Hamida Khuhro, had submitted the summary to the chief minister recommending regularisation of their services, which was collecting dust at the Sindh chief minister house.
“In spite of non-payment of four months’ salaries, we have not adopted the course of protests, processions, hunger strikes, sit-ins and boycott of the classes”, they said and added that “we have chosen to place our request before the concerned authority for regularisation of our services.”
They said that only in Sindh, the lecturers were facing the twin problem of denial of salaries and non-regularisation of services while in other provinces, the situation is quite contrary.They appealed to Sindh chief minister to have a look at the summary.
Signatories of the statement included, Mohammed Shuttal Bozdar, Zulfikar Kolachi, Ms Najma Pathan, Ghulam Yasin, Ms Shumaila Gul, Ms Maryam Jhatyal and others from Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts.
HOSTAGE FREED: A landlord Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was kidnapped 20 days ago from Qambar, returned home safely on Wednesday with the police denying any encounter taking place with the bandits.
When he was produced before the DSP, he said police was fully aware of his kidnapping and the kidnappers.
He told local journalists that he would divulge the whole story at a press conference on Thursday.
However, the two kidnapped people viz; Mohammed Ramzan and Mumtaz Ali Supro, who were kidnapped from ‘Naugoth’ village near Naudero, had returned home on late Tuesday night.
WATER SHARING: Sindh Abadgar Board leader Gada Hussain Mahesar on Wednesday urged the government to settle once and for all the dispute over distribution of water between Sindh and Balochistan.
