Police use water cannons against protesters; arrest teachers during police actionKARACHI: Karachi police on Monday fired water cannon and resorted to baton-charge and tear-gas to prevent protesting teachers from moving towards the Chief Minister’s House to lodge their protest, according to officials and representatives of the protesters. The teachers were protesting for the fulfillment of a host of their demands, some of which were already agreed to by the provincial authorities. As teachers arrived at the scheduled time at the Karachi Press Club and tried to proceed onwards, the police already deployed at all surrounding roads baton-charged them, fired tear gas shells and used water cannon, causing injuries to some protesting teachers. However, when they allegedly attacked the policemen with stones and tried to damage their mobile vans, the police were forced to resort to baton-charge and fire tear gas, they said and confirmed that around 20 to 25 teachers were detained. Some of the demands pertain to promotion of the teachers to Grade-16 scale, regularisation of the services of the contract teachers and of teachers who have passed NTS tests.

Source: Pakistan Today December 25, 2017 17:03 UTC