Efforts stressed for free, quality education

LAHORE
All Pakistan Workers Confederation in a press conference Monday demanded that all political parties should make efforts for free and quality education, decent work for youths, healthcare, an end to exploitative feudalism and abolishment of bonded labour.
They demanded electricity should continue to be a national asset as founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah had declared electricity, railways, oil and gas and other national utilities should be confined to the public sector. The government should learn from the failed privatisation of Karachi Electric Supply Company and not privatise profitable electricity companies in Faisalabad, Islamabad, Lahore and Gujranwala.
The government should instead introduce administrative reforms in electricity companies and raise their productivity instead of handing over all the powers to private members on the board of directors.
These views were expressed by trade union leader Khurshid Ahmed while addressing a large number of trade union representatives. He urged the workers to strengthen their participation in the labour movement to establish an egalitarian society free from exploitation and disparity. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Secretary General IA Rehman declared that no society could achieve social and economic development without upholding the fundamental rights of workers and poor segments of society.