Teachers protest at KPC
Government teachers staged a protest outside the Karachi Press Club on Thursday, demanding the immediate release of salaries to teachers and non-teaching staff appointed in 2012.
The protesters also called for making teachers appointed on contracts permanent and discontinuing the contract-based mechanism for hiring teachers. Demanding the dismissal of management cadres from administrative posts, they said junior school teachers should also be promoted to grade 17.
Rest of their demands included the restoration of 1,400 vacancies of supervisors in the school education department, the restoration of biannual increments in salaries, the issuance of biannual funds to teaching staff as given to their counterparts in Balochistan and an increase in the medical allowance and house rent allowance, among others.
A file photo of a closed cinema house. White Star
KARACHI: Our families are facing hunger and all kinds of other deprivations. If other businesses are allowed to function with restrictions, why can’t the government reopen cinema houses?
This was the question raised by dozens of cinema workers who had come to the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday afternoon to inform the government of Sindh about their plight.
Led by Arif Butt, a labourer who works for Gulistan Cinema, they gathered outside the club carrying a giant banner and chanting slogans. Talking to Dawn, Mr Butt said: “All cinema houses are closed. Our livelihoods depend on them. Cinemas in other parts of the country are open. It’s not an issue [that we can raise] with cinema owners because they will release salaries only if the cinemas are open. Now that they’re closed, we’re dying from hunger.”
JI protests against gas shortage in Lyari
National
December 28, 2020
KARACHI: In a protest held outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday, the Jamaat-e-Islami criticised the Sui Southern Gas Company over its “failure to supply gas to Lyari and other parts of the city”.
JI leaders warned of holding protests outside the utility company office and the Governor House if the federal and provincial governments failed to restore gas at normal pressure.
Speaking at Sunday’s protest, JI lawmaker Syed Abdul Rasheed said the problem of gas shortage had started in Lyrai after “the gas pipelines in the area were flooded with sewage”.
Immediate recovery of missing Shia persons demanded
Karachi
December 19, 2020
The Joint Action Committee for Missing Shia Persons has demanded that if missing persons are in the custody of institutions, they should be produced in courts of law.
Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Friday, committee representatives said enforced disappearances of citizens in a democratic state were a slap in the face of law and justice.
The sense of lawlessness and insecurity was deepening due to disappearances from homes, they said, adding that the rule of law was not possible through mere verbal claims. They said their patience was running thin, and the committee would declare a perpetual hunger strike in various cities if their demand for the safe recovery of missing persons was not met immediately.
Police foil attempt to kidnap woman, arrest two suspects
Karachi
December 18, 2020
Police on Thursday claimed to have foiled a bid to kidnap a woman in Hyderi and arrested two suspected kidnappers.
Police said two men entered a bank, where the woman worked, and the three walked out of the bank. Later, the men grabbed and threw the woman, Tanzila, into a hi-roof van from outside the bank. The bank manager immediately informed the police on helpline 15 and a search operation started.
The police traced the van at Shafiq Morr, recovered the woman, and arrested two suspects. According to Gabol Town SHO Roshan, one of the arrested men, Omair, was Tanzilaâs coaching friend. He had sent a marriage proposal to her a few days ago, but the family had turned it down.