Hyderabad: Sindh University employees continued their protest on the fifth consecutive day on Saturday to press for the acceptance of their demands.

Under the banner of the employees association, they took out a procession from Jamshoro campus and reached the Old campus in Hyderabad where employees of other universities joined them. Later, they held a demonstration outside the press club.

Speaking on the occasion, association leaders said they held demonstrations for their legal right, but the university administration was threatening them with dire consequences.

They said that at a meeting held with the vice-chancellor and registrar and other members of a committee constituted by the VC, employees had been clearly told that their salaries and medical allowance would not be increased by 50 per cent and 100 per cent respectively, as announced by the government.

They said that children of the retired employees were not being given employment nor other problems of the employees were being solved.

Meanwhile, leaders of the All Sindh Universities Employees Federation, Hussain Bux Veesar and Mohammad Soomar Jamali have assured the Sindh University employees that the federation supported their demands and if the Sindh University administration took any action against the protesting employees, there would be retaliation in all the public universities of the province. Dawn