Teachers criticise govt for decision to abolish pension.

KARAK -- Tanzeem-i-Asataza Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, has condemned the decision of the provincial higher education department to abolish the pensions and other facilities for the employees and demanded of the government to withdrawn the decision forthwith.

The demand was made by provincial president of the teachers' body Hidayat Khan while talking to mediapersons here on Sunday. He expressed strong reservations about the decision of higher education department to abolish pensions for future employees of the universities.

He said that the department had also ended house subsidy and medical allowance of the employees, which was...