Syed Ali Shah:
QUETTA: Unemployed agriculture graduates staged a protest demonstration outside the Balochistan Assembly on Wednesday evening. A scuffle also broke out between protesting graduates and the baton-wielding policemen deployed outside the assembly.
However, there was no report of any injury as police pushed back the protesters. “We want the creation of jobs for our unemployed agriculture graduates”, Aziz Ahmed Khan, the central leader of the protesters demanded.
He said the provincial government had created more than 1000 jobs for clerks and class four employees but it was reluctant to create vacancies for the unemployed youth of Balochistan.
The session of the Balochistan Assembly resumed here with acting speaker Sardar Babar Musakhail in the chair. The house discussed the recently presented budget for the financial year 2022-23. Both the members of the opposition and treasury benches hailed the budget.
Outside the assembly, the unemployed graduates staged a demonstration. Despite repeated requests by the protesters, none from the assembly turned up to meet the protesting unemployed graduates. The protest caused the suspension of traffic on the main Zarghoon road, which house the Chief Minister’s Secretariat and Governor’s House.
Baton-wielding policemen were deployed in the entire red zone to stop protesters from staging the demonstration. “I have done my Mphil from Punjab in agriculture but the government is not giving me any job”, Mr. Aziz Khan lamented. Baton-wielding. This protest has come a day after the Balochistan agriculture department announced 1180 posts of clerks and other lower cadre employees in the province.
The protesters said that the number of unemployed agriculture graduates was 3000 and the government should immediately announce the vacancies. “Our protest will continue till the creation of vacancies”, Muhammad Tahir, another protester said. He said they would intensify their protest if the government created new posts for them. There was no immediate reaction from the provincial government in this regard.
