Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has opposed the privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and said that it would render no less than forty thousand skilled workers jobless.
There are serious concerns among workers of the PTCL on reports of its privatisation and it would not be accepted at any cost, said acting president of MMA Qazi Hussain Ahmed during meeting with a delegation of PTCL Workers Pak Union here on Sunday.
He assured the delegation that the religious parties' alliance would take every possible and legitimate steps for the protection of PTCL workers' jobs and raise this issue at the national level.
Observing that the rulers were selling out national institutions at the behest of United States, Qazi feared that sale of institutions having importance with regard to defence would create problems for Pakistan in future.
He urged the workers of the PTCL to get united and eliminate corrupt people who were supporting rulers for privatising the institution and asked them to elect a leadership determined to struggle against the privatisation of PTCL.
The MMA leader asked the rulers to refrain from privatising PTCL and regularise daily wage employees at the earliest, besides giving them opportunity to cast vote.
The delegation informed him that the PTCL was a profitable institution, which was being sold to foreign companies at insubstantial price.
The delegates further said that their union was struggling against the privatisation of PTCL and demanding enforcement of pay scale, private conveyance and residential facility, restoration of sons' quota, salary of at least 15,000 and bonus.
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