PESHAWAR: Officers of the Provincial Management Services (PMS) on Thursday announced to observe a token strike on Friday (today) and Monday to voice their concern against what they described as DMG officers harmful measures against the provincial bureaucracy.

An office-bearer of the PMS Association requesting anonymity told Dawn that the whole provincial bureaucracy from secretaries to section officers at the secretariat and assistant commissioners and commissioners at provincial level would observe a two-hour token strike from 10:00am. The PMS officers posted in Fata would also observe the strike.

The office-bearer said that they would go on complete strike from Tuesday onward, wherein they would also set up a protest camp at the secretariat.

The PMS officers had approached the court against six months on-service training, however, court did not grant them stay. The official said that PMS Officers Association had decided that they would not take part in this training. He said that the on-service training was planned with mala fide intentions by the federal bureaucracy posted in the province and it was not aimed at capacity building of the officers.-Bureau Report