LARKANA, May 7: Protesting against the absorption of Village Workers’ Project in the Health Department, the employees observed a token three-hour pen-down strike here on Tuesday.

Later, they held a demonstration outside the office. Peeral Dayo, president of the All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA), Family Planning Sindh, Zaibunissa Khawar, and others alleged that they were being victimized only to divert funds to the NGO of Federal Minister Begum Attiya Inayatullah.

They said that cut in the departmental budget this year had further worsened the situation.