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Re: Pakistan Teachers Under Attack

Here is an update on Pakistan teachers protests from the BBC:

Monday, 29 July, 2002, 12:19 GMT 13:19 UK
Pakistani teachers protest broken up


Teachers' unions in Pakistan say more than 100 of their members have been
detained by police after they tried to hold a protest rally in the city of
Lahore.

The president of the All Pakistan Professors and Lecturers Association,
Nazim Hassnain said police man-handled the school and college teachers who
had wanted to demonstrate against the government's proposed privatisation of
educational institutions in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

Last Thursday, thousands of teachers took part in protests throughout Punjab
province.

They say more than a million teachers would lose their jobs as a result of
the privatisation plans, and more than six million students would be
deprived of free education.
Online at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2159015.stm

see as well:
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/main.asp?id=23&date1=7/29/2002


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