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Balochistan government employees end protest on court orders
They had been staging a demonstration for over a week SAMAA | Noor Ul Arifeen - Posted: Apr 10, 2021 | Last Updated: 4 hours ago SAMAA | Noor Ul Arifeen Posted: Apr 10, 2021 | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
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Government employees in Balochistan, who have been protesting for more than a week, have called off their demonstration on orders of the Balochistan High Court.
Members and representatives of the Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance have been holding sit-ins in the province. They demanded a 25% increase in their salaries.
According to the protesters, they will resume sit-ins across Balochistan if their demands are not met in a month.
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Ignoring calls from authorities to return to work, thousands of government workers in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province, are continuing their struggle for a 25 percent across the board pay increase and the same allowances paid in other provinces. On Monday the strikers, including health and education workers, enforced a virtual cut-off of Balochistan from the rest of the country with a blockade of the main highways.
A sit-down protest was held outside the provincial assembly in the capital Quetta with other demonstrations held across the province. Education workers have said they will boycott high-school exams scheduled to begin on April 10. A polio vaccination campaign due this week was also postponed as workers conducting mobile vaccination campaigns joined the strike.
BHC orders government employees to end sit-in
Chief justice also orders sacking of teachers who refuse to end matric exams boycott
BHC Chief Justice Mir Muhammad Noor Meskanzai says he will provide all kinds of assistance, facilities. PHOTO COURTESY: BALOCHISTAN EXPRESS
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The Balochistan High Court on Friday ordered the members of All Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance to end their sit-in immediately and ordered the government to hold purposeful talks with the protesting government employees and not take any action against them.
A two-judge divisional bench headed by BHC Chief Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel and Justice Kamran Mulakhel also ordered the imposition of cuts in non-development sector and increase revenue generation. Advocate General Arbab Tahir Kasi, finance secretary, additional chief secretary, and the commissioner of quetta appeared in court to face the petition filed by Advocate Munir Kakar and others pertaining to the sit-in being carried out
Balochistan employees protest: Khuzdar matric exams cancelled
Teachers, staff absent from exam centres SAMAA | TV - Posted: Apr 9, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 hours ago SAMAA | TV Posted: Apr 9, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
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Matriculation exams in Balochistan’s Khuzdar were cancelled on Friday after invigilation staff were absent from examination centres across the city.
Teachers across the province have boycotted the exams as part of protests by government employees. They are demanding a 25% increase in salaries.
When the students reached examination centres, no one was there to assist them. “We waited at the centre for over an hour and then went back home,” a student said.