Teachers block Nawaz Sharif’s motorcade

Islamabad: Boycotting duty and staging street protests for three weeks to demand payment of withheld salary and regularisation of services, scores of the daily-wage employees of Islamabad's public sector educational institutions on Tuesday tried to block the way of Nawaz Sharif's motorcade outside the Federal Judicial Complex in Sector G-11/1 here as the former prime minister left the premises after attending an accountability court's hearing into corruption references against him.

Shouting slogans and holding placards, some women protesters even tried to sit in front of the former prime minister's sport utility vehicle but the security men took them away amid resistance.

The protest caused brief interruption to the movement of the convoy. These daily wagers complained that they'd not been paid salary for the last six months, while the promise of service regularisation had also not been fulfilled by the authorities.