Teachers warn of sit-in on 20th
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE:Punjab Teachers Union (PTU) on Friday warned of holding a sit-in on Nov 20 against, what it called, the provincial government’s anti-teacher policies. In a press release, the leaders of PTU and Tehreek Asataza Punjab (TAP), including Sajjad Kazmi, Chaudhry Sarfraz, Rana Liaqat and others said the schoolteachers had been expressing concerns over the Local Government Ordinance 2019 but to no avail. They said teachers’ issue related to pay protection was also not being addressed while linking regularisation of teachers’ services with PPSC had further upset them. They added the government was not coming up with any clear policy over the PPSC issue, owing to which, the...