KHAIRPUR, Jan 23 Clerks affiliated with the All Lower Staff of Clerks` Association and labour unions district Khairpur irrigation (east and west), workshops, buildings observed a pen-down strike on Friday.

Clerks and other lower staff staged a sit-in outside their offices during the working hours. They were protesting against some influential persons who have allegedly threatened and manhandled PA to the engineer irrigation West division Khairpur, Khadim Hussain Shaikh, on Thursday.

Later, the clerks and lower staff along with activists of the Muttahida Mazdoor Federation and other labour organisations marched from Irrigation Office up to DCO office.The office-bearers and workers of Muttahida Mazdoor Federation, Shah Abdul Latif University Employees Association, SCARP union and other trade unionists participated in the march and recorded their protest at the DCO office.

The labour leaders said that Khadim Shaikh and other irrigation staff had been issued threats. They announced that they would continue their protest and boycott office work till action against influential contractor was not taken.