The Home-based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) and National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) on Tuesday staged a joint protest demonstration against razing of a slum locality in Sector 11-I area of Islamabad and said poor workers were affected with this government action.
Hundreds of labourers and civil society workers participated in the demonstration and shouted slogans against the government and demanded to stop making workers homeless.
Addressing the crowed, leaders from HBWWF and NTUF said the government would not be allowed to destroy the homes of poor workers. They demanded of the government to withdraw this decision of displacing poor people of slum areas. HBWWF’s General Secretary Zuhra Khan said the government was opening doors for land grabbers who had been waiting for this land for last three decades. NTUF President Rafique Baloch said it was the duty of government under the national housing policy 2001 to provide shelter to the citizens but it was making their citizens homeless.
