LAHORE, Nov 3: The All-Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca) has announced that it will observe once-a-week pen-down strike across Punjab from Tuesday (today) to press for acceptance of its demands.

In a statement issued here on Monday, Apca’s Punjab President Muhammad Afzal said the strike would be observed on Nov 4, 11, 18 and 25. He said clerks would hold meetings at the PWD Office on McLeod Road and take out rallies every week.

Afzal said clerks wanted equal house, conveyance, judicial and utility allowances in all districts, discontinuation of deduction from their salaries in the name of group insurance, posting on senior clerical posts in the Education Department, promotion for highways and buildings department head clerks by directors of these departments instead of the communication and works secretary, special increment for employees on grant of selection grade, BS-17 for office superintendents on their promotion, medical bills sanctioned in districts instead of Lahore, regularisation of contract employees, deduction of benevolent fund from the salaries of local government employees and upgradation of accounts clerks posts to BS-9 in accordance with the decision of the Lahore High Court.—Reporter