PESHAWAR: The contractual employees of Workers Welfare Board continued their protest sit-in outside the Peshawar Press Club for the eighth straight day on Wednesday and warned to prolong the protest for indefinite period if they were not regularised.

Politicians, including ANP lawmaker Yasmeen Zia and PPP former provincial president Rahimdad Khan, visited the camp and expressed sympathies with the employees.

The workers’ union leader, Shah Zulqarnain, told the politicians that the government had sacked 3,000 employees who were reinstated on court orders.

The employees, he said had been appointed during the previous government and deserved to be regularised but the rulers were not accepting their demand. He said a meeting of the board of directors of the WWB was scheduled for July 14, which would hopefully regularise the contractual workers, and warned that if the meeting didn’t take up the issue, then they would continue their protest.

The workers, said Mr Zulqarnain, would set up protest camp outside residence of PTI chairman Imran Khan in Banigala Islamabad and also hold a rally outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly building. Rahimdad Khan and Ms Zia urged the government to accept demands of the workers and remove unrest among them. —Bureau Report