HUB: Members of the All Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance block RCD Highway on Monday as they hold a demonstration for acceptance of their demands. PPI
QUETTA: Balochistan remained cut off from other provinces on Monday as thousands of government employees blocked all national highways to pressurise the authorities to increase their salaries.
The Balochistan Government Employees and Workers Grand Alliance had given a 24-hour deadline to the provincial government on Saturday for acceptance of their demands and threatened to disrupt traffic in the entire province.
The striking employees gathered in Hub, Khuzdar, Mastung, Lakpas, Kolpur, Sibi, Dera Murad Jamali, Nushki, Yaro, Qila Abdullah, Loralai and other towns and cities of the province and blocked all national highways by putting barricades and big boulders.
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The highway connecting Quetta and Karachi was closed Monday morning after Balochistan government employees staged a demonstration.
Members and representatives of the Balochistan Employees and Workers Grand Alliance have been holding sit-ins in the province for a week now. They have demanded a 25% increase in their salaries from the government.
The protests started in Quetta on March 29 and have now spread to other districts of Balochistan such as Khuzdar, Chagai, Killa Saifullah, Nasirabad, and Kohlu.
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