ISLAMABAD, April 16: The Peoples’ Right Movement (PRM) on Wednesday met several members of the National Assembly and Senate and informed them about the sufferings of about 1,000 families associated with Shahdakot Textile Mill, Larkana.

The office-bearers of the Shahdakot Textile Mill Workers Union (CBA) also accompanied the PRM members.

According to a press release, the PRM delegation met MNAs including PPPP Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim and MNAs Shahid Bhutto, Anwar Bhutto, Ramesh Lal, PTI Chief Imran Khan and MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

The press release said the PRM team urged the MNAs to take up the issue of Shahdadkot Textile Mill that had been non- operational for the last three years despite the fact that about 1,000 employees were on its payroll.

The movement’s members and office-bearers of the mill workers union told the MNAs that the employees had not been paid during the entire period.

They informed the parliamentarians that facilities to the Employees Colony had also be stopped.

They said Gen Pervez Musharraf had met the CBA members in Larkana during his visit in August 2000 and promised them that the mill would not be closed and all problems of the employees resolved.

Furthermore, it was pointed out that 788 employees had not even been offered nominal severance packages under the golden handshake schemes agreed upon by All Pakistan State Enterprises Workers Action Committee ( APSEWAC) and the government in 1991.