Government employees enjoy swings at a park in F-6 in Islamabad on Thursday while their leaders were busy in holding talks with ministers which later ended successfully. INP
ISLAMABAD: Over 200 government employees, including some trade union leaders, who had been picked up by the police on Wednesday during a violent protest, were released on Thursday evening, hours after signing of an agreement between their representatives and the government.
Sources told
Dawn that some of the union leaders, who had been arrested by the capital police under 3MPO (Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960), also participated in the negotiations with the government ministers which were held at the official residence of Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.