LAHORE: The Muttahida Mahaz Asataza Punjab on Tuesday appealed to the Lahore High Court chief justice to take notice of the indifference of the Punjab government towards the `just` demands of teachers.

`We also invite the civil society to visit our camp on Wednesday (today) at 5pm to express solidarity with teachers,` said Mahaz chairman Tariq Mahmood after presiding over a meeting of the Central Executive Committee on the fifth day of sit-in at Charing Cross.

Attended by Punjab Teachers Union central president Hafiz Ghulam Mohyuddin, Punjab SES Teachers Association central president Rana Sultan, Punjab Educators Association central president Chaudhry Safdar, Punjab Government Schools Senior Staff Association`s former president Hafiz Abdul Nasir and other office bearers, the meeting unanimously decided to continuethe sit-in till acceptance of their demands.

Answering a question, Mr Mahmood said a joint press conference by the Punjab education minister and the schools department secretaryhadprovedthestanceof the Mahaz that the former had been patronising the latter.

`The so-called notification which the governmentbackedgroupofteachershas been presenting as its success, is nothing but a lollipop,` he said.

Regarding the thin attendance at the sit-in, the Mahaz chairman said that in every movement members had been rendering sacrifices.

`This time we decided that only the office-bearers will hold protest,` he said.

Earlier, Jamaat-i-Islami`s Parliamentary Secretary in the Punjab Assembly Dr Waseem Akhtar and All Pakistan Clerks Association`s Punjab chapter president Zafar Ali Khan visited the Mahaz camp and remained there for quite some time to express solidarity with teachers.