MUZAFFARABAD, April 27: Azad Kashmir’s Account-General Raja Gull Mohammad has urged his subordinates not to go on strike in the larger public interest, especially the earthquake survivors.

The AG made the appeal during a meeting held after employees of his department staged a token pen-down strike on Monday “to express solidarity with the striking employees of the audit department,” a source in the AG office said.

“You must realise that if you go on strike it will make hundreds of thousands of people suffer,” the source quoted him as telling the employees.

Referring to the dependants of Oct 8 earthquake victims, the AG said they AG office employees should work with more dedication to facilitate them even beyond their regular office hours.

The AG office had threatened to go on a full strike from April 30 if the grievances of the audit department’s employees were not addressed by then.

Alarmed by the threat of a strike, which would compound the people’s miseries, the accountant-general called a meeting of his subordinates and asked them to exercise restraint, the source said.

The audit department employees are on strike since April 17 against what they term the arrogant attitude of their director-general. Their strike entered 11th day on Thursday but the authorities concerned in Islamabad and Muzaffarabad appeared to be unmoved.