Pakistan

Protest Rally: Clerks take to streets for salary raise

Akhtar Rasool said that the APCA had presented a 24-point charter of demands to the government.

Ppi April 12, 2011

LAHORE: Members of the All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) on Monday observed a pen down strike and took out a rally demanding a raise in their salaries.

The rally, led by Akhtar Rasool, the APCA Punjab president, started from Anarkali and ended in front of the Punjab Assembly building.

Safdar Hussain, the APCA Lahore division president; Mukhtar Gujjar, the Lahore general secretary; Mian Shaukat, the Punjab deputy secretary general; and Mian Basharat Hussain also participated in the protest.

Akhtar Rasool said that the APCA had presented a 24-point charter of demands to the government.

He said if the government did not accept their demands, the clerks would observe a strike every Monday.

The APCA Central Committee meeting would be held on May 7.

A date then may be set for holding a long march towards Islamabad.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 12^th, 2011.