HYDERABAD, Aug 29: The chairman of All Pakistan Clerk Association (APCA), Population Welfare Dadu chapter, Dost Ali Shaikh, has urged the government to suspend two district administration officers of Dadu for withholding one month’s salary of 104 contractual employees and suspending three employees for protesting and complaining to administration.

Addressing a press conference at the press club on Wednesday, Mr Shaikh accused Accountant Mukhtiar Soomro and District Population Welfare Officer Ghulam Rasool Memon of not giving salaries and suspending three APCA workers when they complained against it.

The suspended were Family Welfare assistants Qurban Ali and Shafique Mohammad Soomro, and Watch Mohammad Qasim Khoso who were also directed to report to headquarters in Karachi.

Both the above mentioned officers, he said, were enjoying complete immunity since long and refuse to pay allowances to employees, including uniform and private transport allowance.

Mr Shaikh demanding suspension and inquiry against the two officers also called for reinstatement of the suspended employees and threatened to protest at the Secretariat Office in Karachi and block Shahrah-e-Faisal in case of failure.

Both the officers to pressurise employees also got registered an FIR against nine Union office-bearers at the B-Section Police Station, Dadu on August 17, he said and questioned as to why police were favouring by not taking any action against them.

APCA workers protested against the two officers at the local press club.

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