HYDERABAD, April 3 Junior male and female teachers demonstrated outside the press club under the banner of Teachers Action Forum to protest against the non-payment of salaries.

Chairman Naeem Noorani and leaders including Abdus Samad Samoon, Zeeshan Akhtar and others said that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto won the hearts of masses by announcing “Roti, Kapra Aur Makan” programme. They regretted that his party was not even paying salaries to the teachers.

They said that the junior teachers of Hyderabad had been protesting against the non-payment of their eight-month salaries but no one has taken the notice of their predicament.

They said that teachers were now thinking of selling their children and of collective self-immolation.

They said that they were reeling under huge debts, families starving and their children deprived of education for they are unable to pay tuition fees.

They appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, President and Prime Minister, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sindh Governor and Chief Minister and education minister to ensure payment of eight-month salaries to 206 junior teachers of Hyderabad.

UNEMPLOYMENT A large number of residents of Shah Faisal Colony, Katcha Qilla staged a protest demonstration outside the press club against massive unemployment, price hike and load-shedding.

Speaking on the occasion, social activists Arif Khan, Behram Khan Pathan and Kamran Deswali said that the poor people of the country were groaning under the weight of price hike and unemployment and were unable to even arrange one square meal for their families.

They said that inordinate increase in the prices of edibles, petrol, diesel and gas had made the lives of the poor people miserable.

They appealed to the rulers to reduce the prices of edibles and utilities and to take effective steps to end load-shedding. They said that a large number of industrial units were lying closed due to load-shedding which had rendered thousands of people jobless.

They demanded that all these closed industries should be reopened to create job opportunities.