HYDERABAD, July 27: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association leaders have strongly reacted to a statement of the provincial chief minister that the ad hoc lecturers will not be confirmed in service because they have stopped teaching.
Speaking at the hunger strike camp set up by the SPLA outside the press club to pressurise the authorities to accept college teachers’ demands, Professor Yaqoob Chandio, Ghazanfar Shah, Ayaz Halepoto, Taj Joyo and others reminded the chief minister that educational institutions had been closed due to summer vacations.
They said that ad hoc and other college teachers had never neglected their duties. They regretted that ad hoc lecturers had not been paid salaries for the last five months.
They expressed surprise that while the chief minister had taken over the charge of primary and secondary education affairs, the inefficient education minister had remained in-charge of college education and the education secretary, who had been implicated in a NAB case, still held the post.
The SPLA leaders vowed to continue protest movement till the confirmation of ad hoc lecturers, payment of their salaries and resolution of college teachers’ problems.
Meanwhile, the hunger strike by the college teachers continued on the 11th day.
Protest against hospital administration
Activists of the Pakistan People’s Party (Shaheed Bhutto) staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Friday against the administration of a Kotri private hospital.
Speaking on the occasion, Zahoor Ghallo, Imdad Domki, Shahbaz Baloch, Nadeem Lashari and others accused the hospital administration of implicating one Sohail Abbasi in the kidnapping case of a new born child.
They said that the real accused had been arrested and confessed the crime but Abbasi had not been released yet, and demanded his immediate release.
