QUETTA: Employees of the Quetta Electric Supply Company staged a demonstration on Wednesday to protest against the government’s decision to privatise the institution.

The demonstration was organised by All-Pakistan Wapda Hydroelectric Workers’ Union in front of the Quetta Press Club.

Raising slogans against the government move, the workers said that the government move was at the behest of the World Bank and International Monterey Fund and demanded immediate withdrawal of privatisation policy to save jobs of 160,000 regular employees.

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Addressing leaders of the union claimed that the Water and Power Develop­ment Authority and Quetta electric supply company were ‘profit-earning’ national institutions.

Published in Dawn, March 5th, 2015

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