LAHORE, Oct 5: The Lahore High Court Bar Association has supported the resistance movement of teachers and doctors against privatization of education and health facilities and invited their leaders to speak at the Bar.

Bar president Chaudhry Muzammal Khan and secretary-general Shahid Mahmood Bhatti said, in a statement, teachers and doctors were resisting the government attempts to implement the World Bank and IMF agenda of commerialization of educational and health facilities under the garb of privatization.

They said the rulers were aware that privatization would deprive the common run of the people of fundamental rights of education and healthcare, but was going ahead with the plans to appease its foreign masters.

They said the way the rulers were using force to suppress the resistance movement of the teachers and the doctors against its privatization policy had shown the nation their real face. The teachers had been beaten up and were being arrested and PMA leader Dr Yasmin Rashid had been suspended from service to compel them to submit to the government policy.

They said the Bar fully supported the demands of the teachers and the doctors, and would stand by them in their struggle for the acceptance of the same.