University of Health Sciences sacked employees

Minister warns of resignation for UHS employees Lahore, Aug 12: Punjab Labour Minister Ashraf Khan Sohna said Wednesday that he would tender his resignation if the sacked employees of the University of Health Sciences (UHS) were not restored and regularized.

He was addressing a ceremony which was organized at auditorium of Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, to honor two deceased and 6 injured members of All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA). The victims met the fate during their protest in front of the Governor’s House on May 25.

Ashraf Sohna said that, soon after flood relief activities and rehabilitation of flood victims, he would tender his resignation and participate in the protest along with UHS employees, if they were not regularized in view of the Punjab government’s decision of regularizing all grade 1 to 15 employees in the government departments/institutions and autonomous institutions in the province. ‘It is a matter of my honor to help restore the sacked UHS employees,’ he asserted.

He believed that PML-N senior leader and Senator Ishaq Dar, who is also Chairman of Board of Governors of the UHS, was resisting the regularization of the employees. He said that though the CM had earlier given More >