Saying no to work: AJK lower courts’ staffers go on strike

Protesters demand timely and merit based promotions and provision of house building allowance.

MUZAFFARABAD: Employees working in lower courts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) went on strike for government’s failure to meet their demands, The Express Tribune has learnt. “If the government can give a 100 pre cent raise to legislative assembly members, then why they shy away from fulfilling our demands,” said a protester. The High Court in a decision on July 9 this year had ordered the government to bring judicial employees’ salaries and other allowances at par with their counterparts in the Punjab province. The protestors vowed to continue the strike till the implementation of the court’s decision. They also demanded timely and merit based promotions and provision of house building allowance.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2013.