“Professionally, I am still where I was 23 years ago when I started working as a lady health worker,” said a disgruntled Yasmin Siddiq, 47, from Karachi.
The participants at the events raised the demand for fixing the minimum wage at Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 50,000 per month, an increase in workers' salaries keeping in view the inflation, doubling the pension and withdrawing all recent increases in the tariffs of water, electricity and petroleum products.