Missing colleagues: IESCO union threatens strikes, shutdown
Officials give police 24 hours for recovery of ‘kidnapped’ officials.
ISLAMABAD:
Members of the Islamabad Electric Supply Company’s (Iesco) labour union have threatened to launch protests if authorities fail to recover their missing colleagues.
Labour union officials, Javed Baloch and Dilawar Shah, were addressing a news conference at the National Press Club on Tuesday where they said Iesco project director Raja Abdul Shakoor and his driver Muhammad Islam went missing on Saturday, July 5. According to Shah, the two were on their way to the Convention Centre from Sector I-10 for a meeting related to the metro bus project when they disappeared mysteriously.
Union officials alleged the two have been kidnapped and said authorities have been unable to recover their abducted colleagues. They demanded immediate recovery of the missing officials or they would go on strike.
Shah said despite the lapse of four days and lodging of an FIR, law enforcing agencies are yet to make any headway in the case. “If the missing persons are not back in 24 hours, we will be forced to close our offices and grid stations and go on strike,” said Baloch.
Shah and Baloch pleaded to the media to help spread word about the incident and said they were in direct contact with families of the abducted officials and were providing assistance to them in every way possible.
Talking about the missing Iesco officials, Shah said he did not have any known enmity and was an honest, diligent worker.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2014.
Members of the Islamabad Electric Supply Company’s (Iesco) labour union have threatened to launch protests if authorities fail to recover their missing colleagues.
Labour union officials, Javed Baloch and Dilawar Shah, were addressing a news conference at the National Press Club on Tuesday where they said Iesco project director Raja Abdul Shakoor and his driver Muhammad Islam went missing on Saturday, July 5. According to Shah, the two were on their way to the Convention Centre from Sector I-10 for a meeting related to the metro bus project when they disappeared mysteriously.
Union officials alleged the two have been kidnapped and said authorities have been unable to recover their abducted colleagues. They demanded immediate recovery of the missing officials or they would go on strike.
Shah said despite the lapse of four days and lodging of an FIR, law enforcing agencies are yet to make any headway in the case. “If the missing persons are not back in 24 hours, we will be forced to close our offices and grid stations and go on strike,” said Baloch.
Shah and Baloch pleaded to the media to help spread word about the incident and said they were in direct contact with families of the abducted officials and were providing assistance to them in every way possible.
Talking about the missing Iesco officials, Shah said he did not have any known enmity and was an honest, diligent worker.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2014.