QUETTA, Oct 5: The employees of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL), who are on a pen-down strike at present, have threatened to go on complete strike from Thursday if the daily wage-earners are not regularized by October 7.

In a statement issued here Pak Telecom Employees Union claimed that pen-down strike from 9am to 1pm entered the 20th day on Tuesday, adding that the strike was also being observed in Khuzdar, Hub, Turbat, Nushki, Pishin, Loralai and Sibi. The protesters are also observing a token hunger-strike daily.

The statement said that representatives of daily wages from Karachi also addressed the striking employees today and expressed solidarity with co-labourers in Balochistan and assured them that strike would be expanded to other cities if management of the PTCL did not meet the demands.

Speakers claimed that daily wages employees were regularized in Punjab, Sindh and NWFP on the directives of federal government but Balochistan employees were still being denied the benefit.