Dozens of retired government employees on Friday demonstrated in front of Peshawar Press Club demanding of the provincial government to release ad hoc relief as ordered by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The protestors claimed that other three provinces have obeyed the orders and followed the instructions of the Supreme Court, however, the NWFP government yet to implement the decision and thus hanging up the case. Mian Ayub Kaka Khel, provincial chief of the pensioners and Abdul Ghani, district president, who led a protest demonstration, said the government had announced Rs 300 ad hoc relief for the all government servants in 1997 wherein increase of Rs 100 was made in June 2000.
However, they claimed in spite clear-cut orders of the central government, the employees going to be retried at that time were deprived of the right. They informed that the ad hoc relief was announced for government servants from grade one to grade 16, besides for pensioners.
They said some servants from Punjab had challenged it in the Supreme Court, which had decided in the servants favour and ordered that ad hoc relief should be given to those employees, who were getting it at retirement time- form March 1997 to November 2001. The protesters carrying banners and placards chanted slogans for acceptance of their demands.
They maintained that the retired government servants of Punjab and Center were given ad hoc relief by their respective governments, but the NWFP government was not giving any attention to the issue, and the Frontier government retired employees have still been deprived of their due right.
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