Quetta city is under effective siege from the protesting teacher in favor of demands while criticized government for lack of interest. During the agitation, they are taking stern action against the innocent and law abiding people instead of the Government and its machinery. Siege of Quetta or blockade of main arteries of this provincial Capital is illegal and immoral as the protesters are exceeding their constitutional limit to confine their protest in admissible limits without disturbing the normal city life.

Balochistan educational employees and Balochistan employee’s action committee staged a sit-in at Quetta’s Hockey chowk for the demands as Quetta faced worst traffic jam. After 11 days of token hunger strike Balochistan teachers and staff of education department have made another step towards intensity by staging a sit-in and curbing the people on foot or small two wheelers to pass through the agitation area on main Hockey Chowk.

They had ensured that the common and innocent people are punished effectively and no one should be spared. Why they are punishing innocent and law abiding people? By doing so, they will lose sympathies of the people making their protest weak and vulnerable which can be crushed easily if the Government decided to use force.

Uninterrupted flow of traffic is considered as part of the good governance. This is lacking in Quetta and the Government failed to stop people found willfully and deliberately obstructing the flow of traffic just to attract the attention of the people what they want to convey. Hundreds of vehicle including Ambulances and School vans were seen stranded on the roads of Provincial capital due to scathing traffic jam as Balochistan educational employees and Balochistan employee’s action committee blocked main hockey Chowk.

The blockade has disturbed traffic flow in the entire city as hundreds of vehicles including Ambulances and vans carrying school children were seen stranded at Inscumb road, Jinnah road, Sharah e Liaquat, Zarghoon road, Joint road and other city’s busy streets. In the past vested interests were found in the streets raising their point of view by blocking the road for regular traffic.

We had advised the protesters to lift the blockades of all roads and main arteries of the city immediately allowing the people to pass through their agitation area in their own interest so that the common people should extend support to their protest and put pressure on the Administration to accept their legitimate demand at the moment. Anyone who had advised the protesters to block the main roads and punish the people in general by restricting their movement were not their friends and they must have vested interest for their ulterior motives.

They are government employees and strictly be treated as Government employees and not as trade unionists. We are on record to have demanded that the Government servants in all categories should not be allowed operate like trade unions or indulge in collective bargaining.

They should not be allowed the premises of schools, hospitals and Government buildings for There should be a proper place where the people should gather and agitate their point, if they had a valid one. The protesters and agitators should not be encouraged to punish the people, including women and children, to remain trapped for hours merely because an interest group is agitating his point and he is given the free right to disrupt the city and cause unlimited damages to the people and the provincial economy.

We had already suggested that the provincial government should spare a proper place where all agitated people should be encouraged and patronize to gather there and register their protests if they have any.