ABBOTABAD:
Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) employees on Friday threatened to go on strike if their demand for registering an FIR against the men who had injured Pesco staff members was not met by September 27.
The PESCO workers staged a rally which started from the Pesco Assistant Manager office in Abbottabad and ended outside the DCO’s office. The protesters staged a sit-in and demanded legal action against the accused for pelting stones at the Pesco Operations assistant manager Lora Chowk’s office, along with staff members, by residents of Nariayan Baldhair Mohalla.
Angry villagers locked the Pesco staff in a room and thrashed them. Pesco officials lodged a complaint against the attackers.
On the other hand, some of the accused also lodged an FIR against PESCO officials for attacking them, which infuriated office bearers of the Hydro Electric Central Labor Union, who staged a protest on Friday.
The residents of Nariyan Baldhair Mohalla, after facing long-term electricity suspension to their locality after a transformer burnt down, staged a protest two weeks ago. They ransacked the office after failing to convince PESCO employees to install a new transformer, for which they even claim to have paid a bribe of Rs10,000.
The protesters accused the Haripur police of not lodging an FIR against the Pesco staff and siding with the attackers. The employees threatened to go on a division-wide strike on September 27 if the accused are not arrested.
Meanwhile, former Union Council Nazim Shah Maqsood, Saeed Khan Abbasi, former Anjuman Tulbae Islam Central President Qazi Attiqur Rehman, Shahid Goher of Jamaate Islami, Maulana Hafizur Rehman of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and PML-N office bearers have demanded legal action against the Pesco employees and a ban on the Hydro Electric Central Labour Union.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2011.
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