ISLAMABAD, Sept 8: Employees dismissed from the Sui Southern Gas Company by the previous government have threatened to self-immolate before the President House if they were reinstated on their jobs.

Chairman of the Employees Action Committee Zulfiqar Qadri told Dawn that more than 1,000 persons from Sindh and Balochistan had been recruited during the second tenure of Benazir Bhutto’s government but they were sacked after dissolution of assemblies.

Since then they have been running from pillar to post to get restored but to no avail, he added.

Mr Qadri said they moved the superior courts against the government’s action and got decisions in their favour but they were not implemented by the previous government headed by Pervez Musharraf.

He appealed to the PPP-led coalition government to reinstate the affected employees to mitigate their financial worries.