NAWABSHAH, Oct 19: Activists of Pakistan People’s Party held a demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the press club on Sunday in protest against non-provision of jobs at a school for which they had donated land.

Ghulam Rasool Mahar, Bahadur, Allahdad and others of Dorai Mahar village said that they were members of PPP and had performed worked round the clock during elections to ensure win for the party candidates.

They said that they had donated a piece of plot for building a school in their village in hopes that they and their family members would be given lower grade jobs at the same school but the party leadership ignored them and provided jobs to others.

They claimed that it was their legal right to get the jobs called upon MNAs Faryal Talpur and Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho to take notice of the injustice and provide them jobs.—Correspondent

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