NOWSHERA: The Muttahida Labour Federation threatened on Sunday to take to the streets to protest non-payment of salary of teaching and other staff of the Workers Welfare Board, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for the last five months.

Talking to reporters here the WWB provincial president Mohammad Iqbal lamented that due to non-payment of salary, the workers were finding it difficult to make ends meet. He maintained that education of the children of labourers was badly affected as the teachers were not attending to duty due to non-payment of salary.

Mr Iqbal appealed to Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and provincial minister for labour Aneesa Zeb Tahirkheli to play their role in releasing the salary to teaching and non-teaching staff.

Meanwhile, Anjuman-i-Tajiran Nowshera has vowed to continue its protest camp against the cantonment board authorities for illegally locking houses of the people while their case was pending in court.

The protest camp has been established on GT Road for last seven days. The association’s president Khalid Afridi told Dawn that the staff of cantonment board locked women and children inside homes, who were later released on court orders.—Correspondent