QUETTA, Sept 24: A group of PTCL officials, including the corporation's provincial general manager, have been forced to shift their offices to a local hotel after protesting daily wage workers took over the phone company's building here.

It is learnt that senior PTCL officers have been doing their official work from the hotel for two days. Meanwhile, the protest of the PTCL daily wage workers entered its 10th day on Friday.

MMA Senator Mir Liaquat Ali Bangulzai and MNA Haji Gul Mohammad Dumar visited the hunger strike camp and expressed solidarity with the protesting workers and condemned what they termed the company's discriminatory attitude towards daily wage workers.

Both the MMA leaders called for regularising all PTCL daily wage workers in Balochistan, adding that it had already been done in three other provinces.

PML Balochistan's senior vice-president Mir Abdul Karim Nausherwani also visited the strike camp and assured the protesting employees about apprising Chief Minister Jam Yousuf about the seriousness of the issue.

Provincial president of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Lala Abdul Rauf also extended the party's support to the PTCL workers.