MANSEHRA, Feb 13: The contract employees of National Saving Centres (NSC) have threatened to block Karakoram Highway if their salaries are not released immediately.

“We had taken the issue with the director general of National Savings of Pakistan but instead of releasing our salaries we are being threatened to be thrown out of the offices,” Fahd Shah told journalists here on Wednesday.

He said that a group of contract employees had been deprived of salaries since November last year. More than 323 contract employees working in the National Saving Centres across the country didn’t get their salaries since 2009, he added.

Flanked by his other colleagues, Mr Shah said that the case of regularisation of their service was in the court but National Directorate of Saving Centres withheld their salaries. He said that the employees had to bear the monthly expenses of house rents, fares and others basic needs.

Mr Shah said that the contract employees worked hard to improve the performance of their organisation and facilitate clients. But the high-ups of the organisation instead of appreciating them were planning to show them the door, he added.

Mr Shah appealed to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to help in releasing their salaries otherwise they would be left with no other option but to block Karakoram Highway.

KILLED: A man was killed allegedly by his wife with the help of her paramour in Oghi area here on Wednesday.

Police said that the incident occurred in Horgar Sari area of Oghi where a woman axed her husband to death with the help of her paramour.

A brother of the slain man lodged FIR with the Oghi police station, stating that his sister-in-law was having illicit relations with the accused and when his brother found them together at his residence they killed him and escaped the area.

Police arrested the woman and conducted raids to arrest the other accused. Meanwhile, the body of a woman was found near the central mosque in Battagram Bazaar.

Police sources said that the slain woman was married off to her brother-in-law after her husband was killed last year. The body was handed over to her relatives after autopsy at the district headquarters hospital in Battagram.

The mother of the slain woman lodged FIR against her in-laws. —Correspondent