SUKKUR, Oct 20: A large number of engineers and activists of graduates association demonstrated and observed token hunger strike at Bhitai Chowk in Mirpur Mathelo on Wednesday to protest against denial of jobs to them by the multi-national companies (MNCs) operating in Ghotki.

They also raised slogans against managements of the MNCs.

Talking to journalists, Mohammad Moosa Khoso and Abdul Waheed Mirani maintained that a number of multi-national companies had been operating here and regretted that qualified engineers of the district were being denied jobs.

On a number of occasions, they said, jobs were advertised through newspaper for which local engineers had also applied but decried that outsiders, instead of locals, were adjusted against vacant posts.

Accusing management of these MNCs of favouring relatives of those who had been working on top positions, they warned that tempers were running high among local jobless engineers.