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LARKANA, Dec 2: The Population Welfare Department’s unit of the All-Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) held a demonstration outside the press club on Tuesday, demanding replacement of officers working on own pay scale (OPS) despite Sindh cabinet’s decision against the practice.
Peeral Dayo, president of the APCA unit, who led the protest said that junior officers were deputed and allowed to work on higher grade positions in different departments in clear violation of the cabinet’s decision.
He rejected recruitment recently made in the department and said that instead of interviewing candidates in the districts, a centralised policy of appointments should be adopted to ensure transparency.
He said that all canons of merit had been ruthlessly trampled over and appointments had been made according to already prepared lists.
Mr Dayo said that no appointment had been made on son’s quota and urged the government to regularise all contract employees, including male mobilisers and lady health workers.
Later, a batch of 20 workers observed token hunger strike.
KARACHI VIOLENCE: The secretary general of the Sindh chapter of Jamait Uelma-i-Islam, Senator Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, termed turmoil in Karachi a conspiracy and urged the government to deal with situation responsibly.
In a press statement issued on Tuesday, Mr Soomro said that rulers had miserably failed to contain the situation in Karachi and saw the spiralling violence in the wake of Mumbai incident as a deep-rooted conspiracy.
He alleged that coalition partners in Sindh were involved in the violence in which innocent people were being targeted while killers, terrorists and dictators were ruling the city.
He said that the PPP government must feel its responsibility and alleged that the UK and the US were backing the extortionists and terrorists.
Meanwhile, Ali Nawaz Qasmi, a leader of Sunni Tehrik said at a gathering in Ratodero on Tuesday that Indian threats would derail the peace process.
