Chitral—All Primary Teachers Association (APTA) Chitral arranged a one
day teacher’s convention at Government Commerce College Hall Chitral
which was successfully concluded. Provincial president of APTA Malik
Khalid Khan was chief guest on the occasion. Addressing to the
convention cabinet member of APTA Chitral said that teachers are
architect of the nation but here we are being treating as step mother
behavior. They said that a primary school teacher (PST) is giving scale
15 in Sindh and other provinces but here in our KP province a PST
recruit in basic pay scale 7 and retire in
scale 9 maximum. They also
announced for launching province vise protest in favor of their demands
which they already had sent to provincial government and high ups of
education department. They announced that APTA of Khyber Pahton Khwa
have already started their token protest by wearing black ribbon on
their arms from 1st October which will be continue up to 8th October. All Primary Teachers of KP province will boycott from classes for two hours at day (9:30 to 11:30) to register their token protest from 10 to 22nd October and if their genuine demands were not fulfilled they will boycott from classes completely from 24 October until fulfillment of their demands.