RAWALPINDI: Dozens of teachers and clerks of Rawalpindi staged a protest, on Tuesday, against the meagre increase in their salaries in proposed budget 2014-15.

The teachers and clerks demonstrated in front of highways building near Kutchery Chowk, demanding an increase in salaries according to inflation.

Addressing the protesters, Punjab Teachers’ Union (PTU) President Raja Shahid Mubarik and All-Pakistan Clerk Association (APCA) President Malik Adalat Hussain rejected the 10 per cent increase in salaries, saying this increase was negligible under the current inflation. Government employees find it hard to make both ends meet, they said.

Carrying banners in their hands, the protesters chanted slogans against the government.

They also raised slogans against Islamabad police for using rubber bullets and torture against the protesters on June 4 at Jinnah Avenue.

Published in Dawn, June 11th, 2014