QUETTA:Joint Action Committee, University of Balochistan, Tuesday called on the authorities to announce bailout package for the University of Balochistan, so that payment of salaries to the faculty members and employees of the university could be ensured.

These views were expressed by speakers while addressing the participants of protest sit-in staged outside the office of Vice Chancellor, University of Balochistan under the aegis of Joint Action Committee, University of Balochistan, demanding authorities to release funds for payment of salaries to the faculty members of University of Balochistan.

Speakers said that it was the responsibility of the provincial government to have set up Higher Education Commission at provincial level after the 18th constitutional amendment. They said that faculty members and staff of the university of Balochistan were on strike for the last many days, but the authorities were paying no heed to get the demands of Joint Action Committee, University of Balochistan addressed.

They said that faculty members and staff of the university of Balochistan had been deprived of their monthly salary for the last three months. They called on authorities to announce bailout package for the university of Balochistan, so that payment of salaries to the faculty members and employees of the university could be ensured. Protest sit in was addressed by Professor Dr. Kaleemullah, Professor Arslan Shah, Nazeer Ahmed Lehri, Shahid Ali Bughti, Fareed Khan Achakzai, Mehboob Shah, Asmat Yari and others.