Hyderabad: Four lecturers observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Tuesday in protest against what they termed unjustified transfer of college teachers to remote areas.

Talking to reporters, Prof Haq Nawaz Abbasi, Prof Imtiaz Ali Soomro, Prof Anwar Mansoor Mangrio and Prof Tariq Mansoor Qureshi challenged Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq to hold a dialogue with the SPLA leadership at an open forum on the victimization of college teachers.

They said that 3,600 posts of lecturers were lying vacant in different colleges of Sindh, but 100 'favourite' teachers were working in different departments as officers.

They accused the Sindh government of following the destructive educational policies of Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and alleged that favourite college teachers in grade-17 and 18 were holding posts of principals.

On the other hand lecturers were being transferred to remote places for no reason, they said.

They demanded that a permanent transfer policy should be devised and victimisation should be stopped.

They threatened with an extreme action if their demands were not accepted by Aug 2. Dawn