WB Jokhio was laid off as a chemical engineer from the Pakistan Steels Mills in 1999 and has been jobless ever since. The couple lives in Naudero and has two sons and two daughters.
The Rangers handed M over to the police, who summoned her husband when she appeared before the court. All he could say is that she had been mentally distraught for a while.
His story has a political background. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had recommended Jokhio for the contract job which he got on April 4, 1995. But then, these workers who were recruited from 1993 to 1996 on a political basis by the PPP, were sacked when its rival, the PML-N government, came to power.
They lost their jobs on March 31, 1999.
Since then, Jokhio said he had filed many appeals to get his job back.
Finally, in 2010, President Asif Ali Zardari promulgated an ordinance, ordering the reinstatement of all the employees sacked on March 31, 1999 on political grounds. But Jokhio was left out. “Twenty of my colleagues have been reinstated but I am still waiting,” he said.
The tragedy for the couple is that their elder son, who is a Commerce graduate, is also looking for a job.
“My father and elder brother support me and my family but my children need a proper education, clothes,” Jokhio said.
M is being treated by a psychiatrist at Anklesaria Nursing Home in Karachi.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 4th, 2012.
ook";msv�d-�@ 8x ly:"FedraSerifA Book"; color:black;letter-spacing:-.25pt'>The Sindh education department, meanwhile, appeared adamant that recruitment for the vacancies would now be done on the basis of the Teachers’ Recruitment Policy 2012, which was approved by Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah.
The provincial education minister Pir Mazharul Haq claimed that the recruiting process for primary teachers, which had started in 2008, was complete. “Securing 60 per cent marks was not the only criteria for the appointment. Vacancies in [schools] in respective union councils and [a candidate’s] standing on the merit list for their respective union council also mattered.”
Meanwhile, the protesters outside the city’s elusive red zone hardly controlled their anger against the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government. “When the party was about to take part in elections, Aziz Ahmed Jatoi, who later won the provincial assembly seat, used to send a car for us to run the campaign day and night,” alleged Sajan Khan Mugheri, a senior PPP worker from Kamber Shahdadkot district.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 4th, 2012.
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