The city police on Wednesday attacked the teachers protesting at Fawara Chowk with baton, water cannons, shelling and teargas as they staged a sit-in for their demands outside the chief minister’s house.
The demonstrators threw stones at the police which was retaliated damaging screens of several vehicles parked there. They were intercepted by police as they started marching towards the chief minister’s house from Karachi Press Club. Reportedly, the police also took at least eight teachers into custody.
The police sealed the roads leading towards the CM House by placing containers and started baton-charging the protestors. The shelling from the police’s side knocked several demonstrators unconscious but most of them managed to reach the CM House. The demands of the protestors included replacement of secretary education, growth opportunities and restoration of children’s quota.
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Sindh’s Senior Minister for Education and Information Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the government did not believe in violence on teachers but the teachers are also bound to follow the law.
He issued this statement in view of teachers’ protest outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) for pursuing their demands on Wednesday. Khuhro said the government would consider to solve their demands. He said every person had the right to hold protest in a democratic way but crossing the limits of red zones was inappropriate.
He said the government believed in talks. “If teachers will come up with legitimate demands, the government will consider them.” He said they did not support the violation and arrests of teachers and the ones arrested during the protest would be released soon.
