Karachi—The administration of NADRA has suspended almost 57 office bearers of 
Employees Welfare Association for steering the campaign for confirmation of some 13000 contractual staffers. Whereas the sacked employees have filed an application in National Industrial Relation Commission (NIRC) for seeking permission to constitute Union in NADRA.
The Provincial President Sindh of the Welfare Association Zia Khan, while talking to the media, expressed hope that NIRC would grant them permission to form trade union in NADRA on next hearing , which would be held on 15 June. He said that that the pledges made by President Asif Ali Zardari , Federal Minister Syed Khurshid Shah and senior leader of PPP Faryal Talpur to regularise the contract employees of NADRA could not be fulfilled .
He said that the NADRA management has terminated 61 active leaders of Welfare Association, out of which four officers were reinstated after submitting their written apology.—Online
