The employees of Multan Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) observed pen-down strike on the call of Federation of Punjab Boards of Education and staged a demonstration to press the authorities for acceptance of their demands. The demo was led by Zahid Mehmood, president, and Nisar Ahmed, General Secretary, of the association.
They said that the Punjab government had exempted the students of government schools from payment of examination fee but it did not compensate the education boards nor increased the medical allowance of the employees. They said that BISE would incur huge financial loss due to remission of examination fee on regular students.