Tag: Workers

LAHORE - Dozens of annoyed protestors broke into a North Cantonment police station on Wednesday and held hostage the police officers for several hours. Police officers, requesting not to be named, said the protestors of Sunni Tehreek had staged a protest demonstration against the statements of Vatican Pope Benedict when police officers intercepted the demonstrators.
"An ambulance was stuck in the demonstration upon which we approached to rescue the ambulance. The Sunni Tehreek

FAISALABAD - Dozens of Faisalabad District Court workers held a protest rally in support of their pay raise. Reportedly, the protesters including sessions and civil courts' employees, readers, clerks and peons, took out a rally, carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demand for an increase in their salaries.
The protesters marched to District Council Chowk and Faisalabad Press Club for their demands and appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

KARACHI - The Sindh government has announced that the anti-polio drive in the province would be launched from February 2, but confusion still persists over lady health workers' (LHW) participation in the drive after the Sindh chapter of the workers' association refused to return to work till their salary dues were not cleared.
The anti-polio drive was scheduled to start on January 31, but was postponed after LHWs went on strike, saying that the government had not given them

LAHORE - More than 70 political workers of the Union Council-138 belonging to the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and other parties have joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI).
Talking to Pakistan Today, PTI UC-138 President Arif Mehmood Sheikh alias Koku said that prominent local residents including Syed Zaheerul Hassan, Nadeem Warsi, Akram, Hafeez and Imran Mahmand along with 70 other political workers expressed full confidence on

LAHORE - Two protests were held by different sections of the Pakistan Railways (PR) on Saturday. The PR Workers' Union held their protest at the Railway Station. Around 250 to 300 people participated in the protest. Union General Secretary Zafar Ijaz Malik said that downsizing of the PR be stopped immediately and number of officers lessened.
"Problems are happening because there are too many higher officials and they are being paid too much for not doing anything. For this reason

LAHORE - The Pakistan Railways Workers' Union (PRWU) has scheduled a protest for today against downsizing. PRWU General Secretary Zafar Ijaz Malik told Pakistan Today that their protest will take place at about 11:30 am at the main Railway Station, but another protest by a different union will also be held at the Lahore Press Club later in the afternoon.
"Gradually the problems have led to the workers' unions rising," said Malik. He said the protests will be held all over

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has pinned the permanent reinstatement of over 4,000 workers on a Rs 1.79 per unit tariff increase as well as government institutions clearing the power utility's outstanding dues, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Other demands forwarded by the KESC include the provision of cheaper electricity from WAPDA and ensuring the smooth supply of natural gas from the Sui Southern Company (SSGC), sources told Pakistan Today.
Much of

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Friday witnessed uproar over Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member of the provincial assembly (MPA) Imran Zaffar remarks that hooliganism exists in Gujrat and he is receiving death threats and the Chaudhry brothers would be responsible if he or his family is harmed. Opposition MPAs chanted slogans and started thumping desks on Zaffar's remarks.
PA Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood, who was chairing the session, asked women MPAs to calm down

KARACHI - Some 4,000 sacked employees of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) employees, who were laid off from non-core or redundant departments late Wednesday night, attacked the power utility's head office in Gizri on Thursday, ransacking private property and vehicles.
Protests began on Thursday morning, as enraged employees staged a sit-in outside the power utility's head office to demand the company to revert its decision. Hundreds of others reached the old head office

KARACHI - Workers' unions of the Karachi Electric Supply Company's (KESC) have vowed to continue their protest and disrupt operations till 4,000 of their sacked employees are restored.
People's Workers Union Secretary Lateef Mughal told Pakistan Today said that the sudden dismissal of thousands of employees was a criminal act of the KESC management. He said that the management was "wasting" money on high salaries and unproductive expenditures, but on the other hand, had deprived

KARACHI - Some 4,000 sacked employees of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), who were laid off from non-core or redundant departments late on Wednesday, attacked the power utility's head office in Gizri on Thursday, ransacking private property and vehicles.
Protests began on Thursday morning, as enraged employees staged a sit-in outside the power utility's head office to demand the company to revert its decision. Many of the employees had reached their offices on Thursday

KARACHI - The country's foreign remittances continue to sustain a positive trend as overseas Pakistanis transmitted over $5.291 billion homewards, during the first half of current fiscal year. According to State Bank, the remittances sent home by Pakistanis overseas during July-December 2010-11 were up by 16.80 percent or $761.23 million compared to $4.530 billion in the last corresponding period. Analysts like Naeem Rafi of Rafi Securities Limited attribute the trend in foreign

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved provision of free medical treatment facility to gold medalist workers of the Pakistan Movement and their families in all government-sector hospitals of the province. Complying with the CM's orders, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad issued a notification in this regard on Saturday. The Punjab Health Department issued written instructions to all principals of autonomous institutions and medical superintendents of

LAHORE - At the Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's funeral at the Governor's House on Wednesday, hundreds of infuriated PPP workers chanted slogans against religious parties, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Among the slogans were "Qatil Qatil, Nawaz Qatil, Shahbaz Qatil, Sana Ullah Qatil" (Killer killer, Nawaz killer, Shahbaz killer, Sana Ullah killer) and "Taliban ka jo yaar hai, gaddar hai" (A friend of the Taliban is a traitor).