CHARSADDA, May 3: Hundreds of tehsil municipal administration (TMA) employees here have announced to suspend municipal services from Wednesday (today) in protest against nonpayment of salaries and pensions. A meeting of TMA employees on Tuesday decided to stop cleaning streets and bazaars and water supply to the city from May 4 (today), as the government had failed to accept their demands. They have demanded that the TMA should be provided the grant promised by Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali Khan so that it could overcome its financial crisis.

The employees said that they were facing great financial difficulties and the ANP government should honor the promise made by its party chief.

They said that the TMA had been facing financial crisis for the last several years, but the government functionaries had not shown any seriousness to sort out their problems.

Municipal Workers Union president Abdul Rashid, general secretary Shad Khan, and other office-bearers and workers decided in their meeting that their protest would continue till acceptance of their demands.