KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party has vowed to resist retrenchment of Pakistan Steel employees, expressing its solidarity with the workers, on Sunday.
“Not only will the PPP condemn any attempt to sack the 9,500 steel mills workers but we will practically stand with them to oppose this move,” said Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani during a press conference.
“We will resist this. We will stand with these workers and neither will we leave them helpless nor will we let them be fired,” he added.
Earlier, After the Economic Coordination Council’s (ECC) decision to fire over 9,350 employees at Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), the hopes and prayers for the resurrection of the country’s once top steel-producing unit have been dashed.
Ironically, the decision has come exactly five years after the PSM closed its productions and operations in June 2015.
Federal Industries Minister Hammad Azhar has defended the government’s decision to terminate the services of over 9,300 workers of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), saying that revamping was necessary to revive production there.
“If we want to revive this industrial unit, it is essential for the government to move away from an ‘owner and operator’ mode to that of ‘owner and policymaker’ and include the private sector in the challenging task of reviving the Steel Mills,” the minister said.
