PESHAWAR: Employees of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar (SBBWUP) on Tuesday raised voices against long-pending promotions and demanded immediate action from the provincial government.
Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, Samira Tariq said that promotion cases of university employees had remained pending for nearly 18 years, despite many files being complete.
Accompanied by other employees, she alleged that the administration had neither forwarded the cases to the Higher Education Commission nor to the provincial government.
The senior employees stated that while the university administration was actively making new recruitments, it had failed to act on employees’ promotion cases, creating anxiety and frustration among staff.
She alleged that new rules were frequently introduced without taking employees into confidence, and later those same rules were used against them.
Samira Tariq demanded that drafts related to promotions be shared with employees so that their concerns could be addressed and transparency ensured in the process.
She emphasized that promotions are a constitutional right of employees, and delaying them amounts to injustice.
Samira Tariq alleged that they were not being given access to the provincial Minister for Higher Education, Meena Khan Afridi, to convey their concerns directly.
The employees urged Chief Minister Muhamamd Sohail Afridi, the higher education minister, and other relevant authorities to take immediate notice of the issue and resolve the employees’ grievances.
They also announced that protest activities within the university would continue until their promotion cases were addressed, vowing to expand their protest if their demands were not met soon.
