College teachers hold demo for time scale.

HYDERABAD -- College teachers held a protest demonstration outside the local press club on Saturday to press the government to fulfil its promise regarding their demands.

Leading the protesters, Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Tariq Mansoor, Munawwar Ali Khero and Benazir Junejo of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) said that Sindh government had in 2010 promised that their demand for allowing time scale would be accepted and then finance minister Murad Ali Shah had even approved the summary and forwarded it to then chief minister.

They said that since then, the demand had remained unmet. They said that 11,000 college teachers had been waiting for the relief for nine years. They said that subject specialists as...