Pakistan Police Pakistan: Karachi police manhandle protesting healthcare providers
Karachi, Pakistan: Karachi Police on Friday used water cannons and even manhandled healthcare providers who were demonstrating in the Pakistani city.
The police also detained 25 women workers.
Earlier today, the Grand Health Alliance (GHA) — a collective of healthcare workers campaigning for better working conditions — followed through with their threat of marching on the Sindh Chief Minister’s House after Friday prayers if the government failed to make the health risk allowance part of their salaries by noon, Dawn News reported.
The protesters have been holding a sit-in outside the Sindh Secretariat since Monday.
The protesters were stopped outside DJ Science College after Friday prayers by police who erected temporary barriers on Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Road.
South SSP Syed Asad Raza had earlier told Dawn.com that negotiations were ongoing with the protesters.
SSP Raza later told Dawn.com that the Sindh government had issued a notification constituting a committee for holding talks with the protesters.
The officer said the officials showed the notification to the protesters and asked them to vacate the main artery.
“But the protesters rejected the notification and demanded the health minister personally visit them and assure them their demands will be accepted,” SSP Raza said.
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