KARACHI: Pak Sarza­meen Party chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal said on Wednesday that thousands of workers of the Pakistan Steel Mills were not responsible for the destruction of the national institution which reached its present situation only because of bad governance.

“The government is giving NRO to some incompetent and corrupt ruling people by placing the burden of their incompetence, corruption and nepotism on thousands of PSM workers,” he said while talking to the media after attending the ongoing protest sit-in of sacked employees of the mills in front of the Chairman House in Steel Town.

He attended the protest to express solidarity with the sacked employees.

Mr Kamal said new steel mills were emerging in the private sector and making huge profits, but the state-owned entity was not only in deficit but had also collapsed, which proved that workers were not the problem but “incompetent and corrupt rulers” were.

He said closing down the institution was not the solution.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2021