Lockdown increases teachers' problems.

SWAT -- Teachers of private schools in Swat have been facing financial problems since their salaries were suspended due to lockdown imposed amid coronavirus emergency.

They said that about 12,000 teachers were dependent on private schools as their sole source of earning livelihood for their families, but since closure of the schools majority of them did not receive their salaries.

'I received my last monthly salary in April and since then I was not paid my dues,' said Mohammad Jamal, a schoolteacher in Mingora. He said that he had no money for buying essential items, including medicines.

The teachers said that they were passing through constant mental torture as their salaries had been stopped.

Izhar Khan, who teaches in a private school in Saidu Sharif, said that his mother was a blood pressure and diabetes patient and she needed medicines regularly.

'I borrowed money from my friend in May with...