ISLAMABAD: The daily-wage teaching and non-teaching staff of educational institutions being run by Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Wednesday demanded investigation into the mishandling of teachers.

Addressing a press conference, representatives of dailywage teachers headed by Ahsan Bangash, Ahsan Sikandri, Nadeem Turi and Fahad Mairaj said on Tuesday the federal government used force against the teachers who were protesting against nonpayment of their salaries and for regularization oftheir services.

The police arrested some eight teachers, but were released later on the intervention of opposition leader in Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad, Ali Awan.

On Tuesday, over 100 daily-wage teachers along with nonteaching staff staged a protest outside the FDE building.

The protesting employees kept the road in front of FDE blocked for one hour.

The protesters announced they would continue their strike until their demands were met.

The computer science teachers have aslo not been paid their salaries for the last over one year. Though their contracts have expired several months ago, they are performing their duties without salaries and contract at the request of the FDE. They also participated in the protest and demanded regularisation of their services. A Reporter