Tag: Workers

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that target killers detained in Karachi were expelled from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) several years ago and had no links with the party anymore.
Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House on Friday, Malik said the elements involved in target killings in Karachi would be taken to task soon, adding that action was underway against target killers and extortionists. He said several target killers had been arrested,

KARACHI - Eighty-one Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists and sympathisers have been killed since January 2011, arising restlessness and concerns in the minds of MQM workers and people of Karachi about the unremitting acts of terrorism against the MQM, expressed the MQM Coordination Committee members in a press conference on Thursday.
Speaking at the press conference in Nine Zero, MQM leader Raza Haroon said that on Tuesday, armed terrorists had killed Mehmoodabad Sector

KARACHI - Hundreds of home-based women workers and civil society members on Monday demanded ratification of the ILO Home Workers Convention C-177. In the national convention of Home-Based Women Workers, they demanded introduction of laws as well as ratification of the international law so that they could have legal protection.
The convention was arranged by the Home-Based Women Workers Federation of Pakistan in collaboration with the Labour Education Foundation, HomeNet-Pakistan

QUETTA - Lawyers in Quetta continued their token hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day on Monday against the government's failure to recover two of their colleagues, Munir Ahmad Mirwani and Agha Zahir Shah. Balochistan High Court Bar Association Secretary General and Lawyers' Committee Spokesman Bashir Ahmed Qazi told reporters that despite lawyers' hunger strike lasting five days, the rulers were doing nothing for the recovery of Mirwani and Shah. Separately two mine workers

KARACHI - Thousands of employees of the Pakistan Railways would stage a sit-in at Garhi Khuda Bux on April 12 in order to demand a bailout package for the Railways so it could emerge from its current crises, sources have informed Pakistan Today.
The members of the Railways Mehnatkash Union (RMU) from across the country would gather at the Shahnawaz Railway Station in Sindh, from where the Railways employees would march towards Garhi Khuda Bux. After offering fateha at the grave

MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Eleven people, including three foreign United Nations (UN) workers, five Nepalese UN guards and three protesters, were killed on Friday in an attack on a UN headquarters in northern Afghanistan by demonstrators protesting at the desecration of the Holy Quran by a US pastor, police said.
"Ten (UN) people have been killed by the protesters ... All those killed are foreigners," police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said. A spokesman for the UN mission in Kabul, Don

KABUL - Ten foreign UN workers were killed Friday in an attack on the UN headquarters in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif by demonstrators protesting at the burning of the Koran by a US pastor, police told AFP.

Madonna is facing legal action for unfair dismissal from former employees of her Raising Malawi charity following the collapse of plans for a girl's school in the African nation. The pop superstar had been working on building a £9.3 million education facility in the village of Chinkhota, near the capital of Lilongwe, through her charitable organisation.
However, the project has now been abandoned amid allegations of financial mismanagement, prompting Madonna to dismiss the

ISLAMABAD - The Lady Health Workers Association (LHWA) announced a countrywide strike from today till 50 lady health workers (LHWs) arrested for staging a sit-in at the National Highway near Obaro, Sindh were released.
LHWA head Bushra Arain announced at a press conference on Sunday that the LHWs would continue the protest till their demands were met. She demanded the government release the arrested LHWs and increase their salaries as ordered by the Supreme Court. She said the

TOKYO - Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after radiation in water at the crippled nuclear power plant reached potentially lethal levels, the plant's operator said.
Tokyo Electric Power Co said radiation in the water of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant was measured at more than 1,000 millisieverts an hour. That compares with a national safety standard of 250 millisieverts over a year. The U.S.

LAHORE - Christian workers of the Solid Waste Management Company under the City District Government Lahore (CDGL), have submitted an application to the Qilla Gujjar Singh Police Station complaining against their Managing Director for blaspheming against their Prophet Jesus Christ (pbuh). Akram Gill, part of the union told Pakistan Today that they had approached Wasim Ajmal Chaudhry and had asked for two hours of relaxation each day till Easter (Aril 24), mainly because of the stress

KASUR - Hundreds of people took out a rally against unscheduled load shedding in Kasur and reduced millions of rupees vans, motorcycles and other valuables to ashes. Reportedly, a rally of power loom workers and local residents that started from Kot Murad Khan, reached the WAPDA office where other angry people also joined it. The protesters chanted slogans against the WAPDA and said their business had been closed due to the load shedding, due to which, they were unable to feed their

KARACHI - In preparation for the country-wide census from April 5, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-Karachi decided on Thursday to mobilize its grassroots workers to create awareness and encourage full participation of all citizens. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting at the People's Secretariat, with PPP-Karachi President Najmi Alam, Saeed Ghani, Lal Bux Bhutto, Najma Saeed Chawla, and Latif Mughal among the attendees.
The provincial executive council of the PPP

QUETTA - Ten personnel of the Frontier Works Organization were killed and two others injured in an armed attack in the coastal district of Gwadar close to the Iranian border on Monday. "Ten deaths have been confirmed in a terrorist attack in Palari area of Gwadar district", provincial home and tribal secretary Balochistan told Pakistan Today.
A large group of labourers, along with other staff members of the Frontier Works Organization, a sister organization of Pakistan Army and

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) police arrested two impostors and brought them before a judicial magistrate who sent them to jail until March 30.
Muhammad Ali alias Manan and his accomplice Ishtiaq had reportedly been selling illegal electricity connections in Orangi Town by pretending to be KESC employees. The KESC police arrested the impostors on Wednesday while they were tampering with the meter of a customer who was working in collaboration with KESC's

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - A team of three Pakistanis and three Afghans who were working on a road building project in northern Afghanistan have been kidnapped, a local official said Friday. The five construction engineers and their Afghan driver were abducted as they travelled by convoy in the relatively peaceful north of the country late Thursday, the local director of public works told AFP. "Six people have been kidnapped, three Pakistani engineers, two Afghan engineers and also their

LAHORE - Railway Workshop Workers' Union condemned the recent lack of diesel that had interrupted railway traffic especially from Quetta, Multan, and Rawalpindi and demanded government save the sector from a collapse by immediate transfer of funds to the railway sector in a meeting chaired by Jafar Khan on Thursday. The union said that Pakistan government had established a sixteen member board to represent thousands of workers. They said the board was unclear regarding the processes