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LARKANA, Nov 20: The ad hoc lecturers’ action committee of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) on Tuesday called for regularisation of 836 ad hoc lecturers.
SPLA leaders Prof Ayaz Halipoto, Manzoor Kalhoro and Shuttal Bozdar said at the meeting of ad hoc lecturers from Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur and Larkana that the outgoing governments of Punjab, Balochistan and NWFP had regularised all the lecturers working on ad hoc basis while Sindh government bided its time by keeping them on false hopes.
They alleged that the rulers had punished them for getting appointments on merit and appealed to the caretaker chief minister and minister for education Shujat Baig for regularising them.
FREED: Fifteen lawyers and 14 activists of Jamaat-i- Islami (JI) were released from the central prison late on Monday night after the Sindh government withdrew their detention orders.
A large number of lawyers and activists of Pakistan People’s Party received the lawyers at the main gate of the jail and later took them in a procession to the advocates’ chambers.
Shamasuddain Abbasi advocate who is also Amir of Larkana chapter of JI said that he had refused to come out without his workers but later jail authorities received orders from the high-up to release all the political workers.
Lawyers boycotted courts on Tuesday and held demonstration in the court premises.
JUI: Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, general secretary of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) announced that ulema would participate in the general elections and would not give a walkover to the secular forces, terrorists and the US agents.
