BAHAWALPUR, June 7: Residents of Bhatta Sheikh Salahuddin locality staged a protest demonstration here on Saturday on the completion of one year of their eviction from their houses.

The tehsil municipal administration evicted several people of Bhatta Sheikh Salahuddin locality from their houses on the pretext that they had built their houses on encroached land. The TMA also razed these ‘illegally built’ houses. Later, the district government promised the evicted people would be given land for houses in Tibba Badar Shair locality and Rs10,000 each.

The demonstrators, who were carrying banners inscribed with their demands, raised slogans against the tehsil municipal administration and urged the district government to fulfill its promise. They said that officials evicted them from their houses a year ago, but they were not provided alternative land and compensation money. They said that presently they were living in rented houses.

APCA: The All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) continued its protest against price hike on Saturday.

Several low-grade employees, led by APCA Punjab Secretary General Fakhrur Rehman Azhar, observed strike and marched on the roads.

They demanded that the government increase their salaries in the coming budget. Azhar said APCA would intensify protests in all cities of the province from the next week.