PESHAWAR: The former employees of Peshawar Public School and College (PPSC), including teachers, have demanded of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to restore theirpensions as they were facing worst financial problems.

Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, former principal of the college Mohammad Jameel Khan said about one and a half month ago the government stopped payment of pension to the employees without any reason, stressing them out.

Flanl(ed by a number of former employees, he said most of the teachers` livelihood depended on the meager amount of pension.

`Our former students like Dr Haider Ali Khan, Shahram Khan Tarakai, Mahmood Khan and Shakeel Khan are in the provincial government and they should take notice of the problems we are facing these days,` the former PPSC principal said.

The educationist recalled that a previous government had stopped releasing grants to the institution in 2000 and the incumbent government had also stopped the pensions.

Jameel Khan said they had rendered numerous sacrifices for the institution as they raised it from a small school to a toplevel educational institution in the province but the government, instead of supporting them, had deprived them of their due rights.

`Most of my retired colleagues often run out of money even for purchasing medicines,` he lamented and added that they could not do any other job in the old age.

Mr Khan said he and his colleagues had tried to contact the education minister Mohammad Atif Khan and secretary education in that regard, but to no avail.

He said they would be compelled to observe a sitin outside the house of PTI chairman Imran Khan in Banigala Islamabad, and also in front of the KP Assembly if the education minister did not pay heed to their demand.