PTCL Employees’ Strike is Over

It is reported that with the grace of Allah, dialogues between PTCL Administrations and United Workers’ Union. PTCL administration went successful and that PTCL administration has accepted almost all demands from employees’ union, which in return put their 2 weeks’ long strike over with immediate effect.
Geo TV reported late night (July 30, 2008) that dialogues [...]

PTCL Employees Continue Strike

PTCL employees are on strike for almost a week now. They are protesting against Unified Pay Scale introduced by PTCL administration, despite of assurance through a notification from SEVP Finance, that administration is taking back Unified Pay Scale and agreeing on all other demands asked by PTCL employees.
However, employees carry on protests as they think [...]

PTCL Operations got Jammed As Employees Protest against “Unified Pay Scale”

Today, throughout Pakistan, PTCL exchanges remained on strike, leaving hundreds if not thousands of customers helpless; who were either looking for their telephone lines to get restored or those of DSL customers waiting for their broadband connections get deployed.
No activity was reported but the protest by PTCL employees over the unified pay scale (UPS). The [...]

Warid Telecom Engineers Kidnapped in LakKi Marwat

A news item published in ‘The News’ on June 23, 2008, revealed that two sub-engineers of Warid Telecom named as Muhammad Kashif and Gul Bakht Khan were kidnapped by unknown persons in Lakki Marwat, (the yellow area spotted in the map) while they were installing a cell site in the area. However, they were not [...]

PTCL Employees Set Another Front for Administration

More than four thousands contract employees of PTCL are on continuous strike for last couple of weeks, who are continuously demonstrating before company headquarters in Islamabad.
I had an eye on number of news items being published in various newspapers, and also observing them on daily basis as PTCL head office happens to come across route [...]