THE government raises salaries of public sector employees in the budget, but no one bothers about private sector employees who do not get even Rs6,000 a month.

They are thus not able to run their houses with prices going up every day. This is happening because the government has stopped thinking about the poor labour force in the country. I request the government to fix Rs15,000 as minimum salary for the labour force in the private sector.

TARIQ HUSSAIN KHAN
Karachi