SUKKUR, March 20: Workers of Pak-Saudi Fertilizer, Mirpur Mathelo, staged a sit-in outside the main gate of the factory after marching through the main places of the city for the third consecutive day on Wednesday.

Carrying placards and black flags, they chanted slogans against the government and declared that the labourers of this factory would never accept the decision of the Privatization Commission to sell the unit of the factory to the FFC.

A meeting was also held to protest the decision. Workers’ leaders Abdul Khaliq Jani, Fateh Samejo and others urged the government to withdraw the decision to privatize the factory.

Criticizing the police and the district administration for registering cases against 150 workers of the factory, they said the policies of the government were never defined as every new government would announce a privatization package but the next one would put the chairman of the privatization commission behind the bars.

They said whenever the military came into power it bankrupted governmental departments and disturbed the functions of government institutions.

They further said that the factory bought by Fauji Fertilizers Company was lying dysfunctional and added that the PSF was earning Rs.2 billion per annum for the government in terms of profit but the General approved the selling of factory to his counterparts despite his tall claims of raising the living standard of the working class.

They pointed out the motive behind the privatization government institutions was only to loot.