Punjab teachers call off protest on assurance of demands being met.

ISLAMABAD -- Punjab government teachers announced to end their sit-in at Bani Gala on Sunday after the Islamabad deputy commissioner assured them of their demand being met.

Contractual teachers from 36 districts of Punjab converged on Bani Gala, near Prime Minister Imran Khan's residence, a day ago in an effort to draw attention toward their demand of being made permanent employees.

Chairman of the Secondary School Teachers core committee Qasim Bukhari stated that the Islamabad administration had assured them about the resolution of their demands during the negations that were held the previous day.

'On the assurance of the Islamabad DC [deputy commissioner] becoming the mediator we are postponing the protest,' Bukhari said. 'We will start the protest again on one-day's notice if demands are not accepted.'

He said that the Punjab government had assured to make 14,000 contractual teachers permanent, but no practical steps were taken in this regard.

Earlier, it was reported that school teachers, who form the building block of any education system, were baton-charged and tear-gassed near the prime minister's sprawling mansion in the federal capital the previous day.

A subsequent protest by the teachers in the federal capital also led to a massive traffic jam.

The Islamabad Police, deployed in large numbers with riot gear, had barricaded the Bani Gala road. They attempted to stop the...

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