Tag: Workers

Workers all over the world are losing their rights to social security and other benefits from the state due to globalisation, growing privatisation and...

The Awami National Party (ANP)-Sindh has issued a 72-hours ultimatum to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) to reinstate 4,500 employees or prepare for...

Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)’s sincerity in resolving the power crisis in the city is being questioned after the power utility has failed...

W ith no breakthroughs in the ongoing row between the Karachi Electricity Supply Company (KESC) workers and their management, even the committee formed by...

As many as 267 sacked employees of Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) Monday staged a demonstration against what they called their ‘unjustified’ termination from...

Protesting workers of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) on Wednesday turned down the truce offerings made by the power utility’s chief executive officer,...

The power-deprived citizens of Karachi were forced to take to the streets on Wednesday as the row between the management of Karachi Electric Supply...

The protest lodged by employees of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is likely to end in a couple of days after a third...

Expressing dissatisfaction over the Ministry of Labor and Manpower’s Worker Welfare Fund, the Public Accounts Committee has asked for a detailed report within eight...

Dozens of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) workers on Sunday held a protest rally in front of the National Press Club against the violation of Pakistan’s airspace...

Hundreds of industrial workers, traders and industrialists on Tuesday staged a demonstration near Small Industrial Estate Sialkot and blocked the main Shahabpura Road for...

The global community is commemorating the International Labour Day on May 1st to acknowledge the contribution of workers in their respective progress. But the...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Police on Wednesday arrested around 60 employees of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) after they occupied their managing director's office while protesting against non-payment of their salaries. Over 200 employees, who were reinstated under a presidential ordinance, occupied the office for more than two hours, demanding payment of dues denied to them for the past many months and one-step promotion as promised by the management.
They refused to

PESHAWAR - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) central leader Sajid Gumrani said on Wednesday that around 0.2 million workers would participate in two days sit-in on 23rd and 24th in the province. Speaking at the Peshawar press club, he said all prerequisite arrangements were being made for the sit-in as 2, 000 workers would guard it.
He said the PTI sit-in against US-drone attacks proved that the masses showed great anger and resentment over the US-predator incursion in Pakistani

BAKHRAN - At least three workers were shot dead while three others were injured when some unidentified men attacked a workers' camp and opened fires on the workers here on Monday, police said.
As a result, three persons were killed. The deceased are identified as Sajjad Amed, Rab Nawaz and Mohammad Bux while three others wounded in the incident.
After the incident, the injured were shifted to district hospital Dera Ghazi Khan, where they were stated in critical

ISLAMABAD - Awami National Party (ANP) President Asfandyar Wali Khan on Sunday said no worker of his party was involved in the ongoing targeted killings in Karachi and all allegations in over the issue were baseless.
Talking to journalists at the launching ceremony of membership drive of his party, Asfand said no worker of the ANP was involved in the series of target killings and if found guilty, he should be hanged. He said only one person belonging to the ANP had been arrested

LONDON - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif's personal staffs have imposed a ban on his meetings with party workers in the UK. Top leaders and influential people are frequently meeting Nawaz Sharif while the PML workers are being prevented to see their leader after his recovery from heart surgery last month, party sources told Pakistan Today.
A Manchester-based PML-N leader complained that for the last few weeks he is trying to get an appointment to see Nawaz Sharif