By: Zia Syed (All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions)
13th June 2005

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) Employees Union claimed that authorities had arrested 500 workers and the union had damaged the fiber-optic cable linking Quetta with other parts of the country.

At a press conference in Karachi, the PTCL Union Action Committee’s central leader gave the government a 24-hour ultimatum to withdraw its proposal to privatize the company and release all arrested employees. He said the union had set June 15 as the deadline to jam the system against the proposed privatization, but the plan had been rescheduled now that its leaders and workers had been arrested.

The union leader said that 500 workers had been arrested throughout the country and the police had raided his and other leaders’ houses. He warned the parties interested in buying the company against participating in bidding, saying, “The workers will stop them.”

upay ¶ 2:26 PM

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