Bilawal slams Imran Khan's government for sacking over 4,500 PSM employees

Hitting out at Prime Minister Imran Khan for sacking more than 4,500 employees of the Pakistan Steel Mills, Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said he will re-instate the abandoned workers once his party will be in power.

Islamabad: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan, calling his government "heartless" to sack more than 4,500 employees of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM). Bilawal vowed to re-instate them once his party is in power.

Bhutto said in his tweet, "The heartless government's sacked 4,500 workers of Pakistan Steel mills. PPP will return each and everyone back to work."

"The land of this historical industrial asset belongs to the people of Sindh. We will not let the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) get away with this economic murder. Sack Imran, not workers," he added.

According to a report by Geo News, the PSM sacked 4,544 of employees, including the divisional and assistant managers, belonging to category 2,3, and 4 pay groups. Earlier, Minister for Industries and Production Hammad Azhar had announced the government's decision to privatise PSM as it had become a burden on the national exchequer.

Geo News quoted him as saying that PSM employees had not been working for the last many years and now they would get a financial package of around Rs 2.3 million per employee as compensation.

ANI Report