Pakistan Peoples' Party Punjab Secretary Information, Member Provincial Assembly Punjab and Parliamentary Leader Syed Hassan Murtaza has said the PPP was the voice of the teachers and was taking steps to release them which were arrested in the federal capital.

Talking to journalists along with lawyers of his party after expressing solidarity with female teachers, detained at Women Police Station at Sitara Market here on Saturday, he claimed that men and women teachers were arrested and tortured midnight by the police.

The PPP leader said after the engineers, doctors, teachers and now the politicians were taking to the streets. He said Federal Minister Shehryar Khan Afridi had promised to regularize the services of these teachers but he did not fulfill his commitment.

Murtaza said police arrested 107 male and 97 female teachers and tortured them in the darkness of midnight when they came out to protest for their rights. He said PTI government had not paid the salaries to the teachers for the last 12 months and their salaries were less than the salary of a labourer.

He said that due to inability of the government, engineers, doctors, teachers were taking to the streets and bureaucracy was not ready to work. "We strongly condemn this attitude against the teachers of the government," he said.

Mustaza said that employees of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) were also on strike. He said PPP was also raising voice for the rights of workers and poor people.

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