KOHAT, Oct 8: Around 150 Tehsil Municipal Administration employees have long been drawing salary without doing assigned tasks, according to the president of the administration’s employees union.

During a meeting of the union’s office-bearers here on Monday, Mohammad Sohail said such employees should report to the respective departments within two weeks otherwise payment of salary to them would be suspended.

He said the TMA employees, who had been in the habit of not doing duty, visited the respective offices at the start of every month only to draw salary.

Mr Sohail said such employees reportedly enjoyed the blessing of their bosses, who okayed their performance reports.

“Suspension of salary payment to them is to improve the administration’s performance,” he said.

The TMA employees’ union president was accompanied by secretary general Sakhi Badshah and other members.

Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami has declared Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl a major hurdle to the restoration of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.

Provincial JI vice president Mushtaq Ahmad told participants of a meeting here on Monday said if JUI-F joined MMA, religio-political parties could sweep the next elections and thus, forming a true Islamic government in the country.

He said the government’s corruption over the last four and a half years valued billions of rupees and that all postings to government departments were made ‘on payment’.

The JI leader said Awami National Party and Pakistan People’s Party were responsible for the death of 45,000 innocent people in the war against terrorism.

He said 350 drone attacks had been carried out by the US in various tribal agencies, including South Waziristan, but the government was deliberately silent on it to please the US.

Mr Mushtaq regretted that the production of anti-Islam film in the US had failed to jolt the government awake.

He said all those in the government were enjoying perks and privileges, but the common man was subjected to terrorism, inflation, corruption, lawlessness and energy crisis.

The JI leader said Pakistani rupee had dropped against Bangladeshi taka and Afghanistan’s Afghani exposing the policies of the government’s financial advisers.

He said the government’s policies was a bigger threat to the country’s existence than India.