Sacked UBL staff warn of protest

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Sacked UBL staff warn of protest
By SIKANDER SHAHEEN April 17, 2009
ISLAMABAD - The sacked employees of United Bank Limited (UBL) have warned the government of countrywide protests, to be started from next month in case their demands were not met by the end of the ongoing month.
The members of Central Action Committee (CAA) of the Retrenched Officers Association, UBL, visited TheNation to elaborate on their grievances, which they hold against the present government. The sacked employees slammed the government for resorting to delaying tactics regarding their reinstatement.
Muhammad Anwar Usmani, Chairman Central Action Committee, while talking to this correspondent, told that as many as 5,416 employees were forcibly retired from their jobs on October 12 1997 in the period of Nawaz Sharif, in stark violation of services rules. He said that the said employees were victimised politically where as no valid justification was held against their termination. “We were sacked due to the sole reason that we were promoted in Benazir Bhutto’s tenure between 1991 to 1994,” he added.
He went on to say that Benzair Bhutto had expressed her deep sympathies with the suspended officials of United Bank and had vowed to reinstate them on numerous occasions. According to him, the BB, while leading a public rally in Karachi, on November 15 1997, had urged the sacked officials not to worry under prevailing circumstances. “Consider yourself as if your are on leave, I would reinstate all of you once I assume power.
That’s what BB had said then,” added Anwar Usmani. He said that BB had reiterated her resolve again in December 2007 while leading public rallies in Karachi and Lahore.
However, the officials deplored, despite the arrival of PPP government, our demands have not been met. The discarded ones reported that they had raised the issue of their reinstatement in May 2008. The government had made reinstatement committee under the chairmanship of Raza Rabbani to reinstate the sacked employees.
The political victims said that Mian Raza Rabbani had assured them that government would bring an ordinance to reinstate the sacked employees.
On February 14 of this year, the President of Pakistan had issued an ordinance according to which, 2200 politically victimised officials of 22 government departments including SNGPL, OGDCL, ADBP, PIA, State Life, Utility Stores Corporation and other government-run organisations were reinstated with all the due benefits.
However, UBL employees were marginalized and the matter pertaining to their reinstatement was held in abeyance.
The suspended bankers said that after the resignation of Raza Rabbani from chairmanship of the Reinstatement Committee, Labour Minister Khurshid Shah assumed the chair of the committee. The employees slammed Khurshid of his negligence and apathetic attitude towards the matter. “We had arranged a protest on April 13.

UBL sacked employees to be reinstated: Khurshid
⋅ Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 ⋅
ISLAMABAD (SANA): Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower, Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah on Tuesday c who were removed from service in 1997 that they would be restored.
Talking to their delegation, he said that the case of the sacked UBL employees did not come under the purview of ordinance –clause 27-B but they would be reinstated because this is the commitment of late Benazir Bhutto.
The Federal Minister assured the delegation that all the obstacles in the way of reinstatement of the UBL sacked employees would be removed very soon.
They would be reinstated like so many other sacked employees who have been recently restored to their jobs.
The delegation thanked the Federal Minister and assured its full support to the government.

Updated at: 2005 PST, Tuesday, March 31, 2009

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Deputy Secretary General Senator Mian Raza Rabbani submitted a privilege motion in the Senate today regarding the non-compliance of an ordinance on the reinstatement of the sacked employees.

He has contended in the motion that his privilege as a senator has been breached after the sacked employees were reinstated despite the promulgation of the ordinance.

The motion after its submission is expected to be taken up by the Senate during its first session under its new leader from April 17. If no objection is raised, the Senate chairman would refer it to the Senate committee on privileges.

President Asif Ali Zardari had promulgated the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Ordinance-2009 on February 14 for the reinstatement of employees fired in 1990s.

The senator said in the motion that it was decided in a cabinet meeting that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani would advise President Zardari to promulgate an ordinance, which was done under Article 89 of the Constitution.

“But certain CEOs and MDs of autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies have not complied with the ordinance.”

Rabbani to file plea against non-restoration of sacked employees

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
By By Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Deputy Secretary General Senator Mian Raza Rabbani will submit a privilege motion in the Senate today (Tuesday) regarding the non-compliance of an ordinance on the reinstatement of the sacked employees, The News learnt on Monday.

Sources close to the legislator said Raza Rabbani had drafted a motion, which would be submitted to the Senate most probably on Tuesday. He has contended in the motion that his privilege as a senator has been breached after the sacked employees were reinstated despite the promulgation of the ordinance.

The motion after its submission is expected to be taken up by the Senate during its first session under its new leader from April 17. If no objection is raised, the Senate chairman would refer it to the Senate committee on privileges.

President Asif Ali Zardari had promulgated the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Ordinance-2009 on February 14 for the reinstatement of employees fired in 1990s.

The senator said in the motion that it was decided in a cabinet meeting that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani would advise President Zardari to promulgate an ordinance, which was done under Article 89 of the Constitution. “But certain CEOs and MDs of autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies have not complied with the ordinance.”

Raza Rabbani said that under Article 50 of the Constitution, the president, the National Assembly and the Senate constituted the Parliament therefore an ordinance had the same force as had an act of the Parliament. “Its implementation is compulsory unless a resolution by either House is passed,” the former leader of the house in the Upper House of Parliament pointed out in the motion.

The motion states that some departments including the Sui Southern Gas Company, the Sui Northern Gas Company, the OGDCL, the Pakistan State Oil, the State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan, the National Bank of Pakistan and the Pakistan International Airlines have refused to reinstate the sacked employees. “A continued defiance of the said law by the officers and offices is a breach of privilege of the Parliament because it (the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Ordinance-2009) is a law promulgated by one of the constituents of the Parliament under the Constitution,” it adds.
A reliable source told TheNation some ministries, including Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs are creating hurdle in reinstatement of sacked employees.

Retrenched UBL workers approach President, PM for reinstatement

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
By Dilshad Azeem

ISLAMABAD: Retrenched employees of United Bank Limited (UBL) have approached President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, seeking their intervention to get jobs on the pattern of other reinstated employees in various departments.

These jobless UBL employees have jointly written a letter to the president, premier and other political leaders, urging them to end the policy of discrimination in providing re-employment opportunities for those expelled in 1997-99 by Nawaz Sharif government.

As Federal Minister Syed Khurshid Shah presently heads the reinstatement committee after Senator Mian Raza Rabani quit all offices, these ex-staff members asked the presidency and Prime Minister’s Secretariat to ensure implementation of reinstatement ordinance in all organisations.

“We may also draw you kind attention to the fact that by reinstating the services of retrenched UBL employees, there will be no financial burden on the government’s shoulders as the Bank may accommodate these employees through funds already provided by the World Bank and IMF at the time of our retrenchment,” the letter says.

They, in the letter available with The News, wrote with regret that the present government has restored the jobs of people in other departments except those who had been working in the UBL in the period specified under the ordinance.

“We are very thankful to Raza Rabbani, ex-chairman of the Reinstatement Committee, who not only understood our problems but also convinced the cabinet and all concerned to include ourselves in the ambit of the ordinance,” the letter reads.

“The new management should be asked for re-employment of these employees as it is the responsibility of the government to accommodate them,” the UBL Employees Association Chairman Anwer Usmani said when contacted.

The letter went on to say that after promulgation of the reinstatement ordinance, we were hopeful that our services will be restored immediately but the UBL president has flatly refused to accommodate former employees.

“It is the PPP government, which has not only fulfilled the promise made by our leader Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto for reinstatement of all those employees whose services were terminated by Nawaz government in 1997 and 1998 but has also implemented the party’s manifesto,” they wrote in the letter.

They requested implementation of direction issued through the ordinance immediately and strict action to be taken against the officials who are ignoring the government directives. The UBL retrenched employees association Chairman Anwer Usmani updated that they had earlier written a letter UBL President who neither responded nor came up to listen the grievances of the employees.

In response to a question, he said these employees are ready to surrender golden shake hand amounts given to them and accept the jobs under the government policies. “We were forced to accept the golden hand shake amounts when we were handed over the retrenchment letters,” he responded to a question.

Usmani said the UBL employees have no term and conditions but simply needs employment as still they are facing unemployment despite passage of ten years to their forced departure from the Bank. “Our concern is not to get lucrative money offers but to be engaged in jobs as the employees in other departments are restored while issuing the reinstatement ordinance,” he added.

PM takes notice of non-reinstatement of 7,000 employees
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has taken notice of the non-implementation of the Cabinet’s decision to reinstate over 7,000 people who were appointed in corporation services, autonomous or semi-autonomous bodies or government service between 1993 and 1996 and were sacked between 1996 and 1998. Chairing a meeting at the PM House on Wednesday, Gilani directed the departments concerned to immediately implement the decision. The prime minister also appointed Federal Labour Minister Khursheed Shah as chairman of the cabinet committee for the employees’ reinstatement. Shah, Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, Federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan, Federal Privatisation Minister Naveed Qamar and Attorney General Latif Khosa attended the meeting. staff report
Cabinet Committee reviews hurdles in the reinstatement of sacked employees
ISLAMABAD: A Cabinet Committee meeting for reinstatement of sacked employees under the chairmanship of Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Syed Khurshid Ahmad Shah was held here on Friday to review the impediments in the way of reinstatement of government sacked employees during the period 1996-1998.
While chairing the Cabinet Committee for reinstatement of the employees the Minister urged the Ministry concerned to accelerate the process of reinstatement within a week and send report to the Committee on weekly basis.
The Minister said that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani had taken serious notice of the non-implementation of the Cabinet’s decision on the reinstatement of the employees who were appointment during 1993-1996 and were dismissed during 1996-1998.
He said the government of PPP is committed to address the grievances of the masses on priority basis and those who had been victimized by the past governments would be provided with justice.
Federal Minister for information Qamar Zaman Kaira Federal Minister for Privatization, Syed Naveed Qammar Federal Minister for Housing and Works, Rehmat Ullah Kakar and Federal Minister for Local government, Justice (r) Abdul Razzaq Thaheem also attended the meeting.

Raza Rabbani wants defiant bureaucrats interrogated
ISLAMABAD: Inter-Provincial Coordination Minister Raza Rabbani on Monday accused the bureaucracy of blocking the implementation of cabinet's decision to reinstate employees sacked on political grounds, demanding the prime minister order his secretariat to proceed against the bureaucrats responsible. Rabbani told the Senate that the Sui Gas department had flouted Supreme Court orders and recommendations by a Senate standing committee by not reinstating the sacked employees. He said an ordinance had been recently promulgated for the immediate reinstatement of employees sacked between 1996 and 1998. Rabbani said the Senate would pass a law in this respect in its next session. staff report

UBL refuses to accommodate retrenched employees
Friday, February 20, 2009
By Dilshad Azeem
ISLAMABAD: The United Bank Limited (UBL) has flatly refused to accommodate the employees retrenched between 1997-99 despite the PPP leadership’s continuous assurances of reinstatement, prompting the removed staffers’ association to call for a countrywide protest.

The federal government, without mentioning the organisations’ names, issued a notification on Wednesday to all ministries and departments for immediate reinstatement of the employees sacked by the last Nawaz Sharif government.

“It is not our responsibility to induct those expelled or retrenched or given golden handshake in 1997-99,” UBL President Atif Bukhari told The News on Thursday after the PPP-led government formalized restoration of the services of the sacked ones.

The UBL president says the bank employees were neither sent home by the present management nor it is considering providing them re-employment opportunity under what the government announced for state run entities. “Yes the Bank was state-owned at that time but now it is a private entity.”

Bukhari claimed that the ordinance, if read carefully, does not cover the golden hand shake employees under whatever circumstances existed before the Bank’s privatisation.

“UBL is alone the authority to hire or fire its staff members as per contractual terms, and we have nothing to do with period before privatisation,” he said.

The retrenched employees are prepared to accept the conditions the government announced for state run departments and surrender the amounts they were handed over in what they claimed, the forced golden hand shake in 97-99.

Inter-Provincial Minister Mian Raza Rabbani, who headed the committee to chalk out modalities for reinstatement of the sacked employees, and PPP Labour Wing boss Chaudhry Manzoor have been announcing in the public as well as their meetings with the UBL employees that the presidential ordinance covers all those who lost jobs.

“We are trying to chalk out a mechanism in coordination with the UBL management for provision of the jobs to the Bank employees kicked out in that period,” Raza Rabbani had told The News just a couple of days back.

Anwar Usmani chairman of the association of sacked employees of the UBL told this correspondent, “Raza Rabbani in the Lahore speech of Feb 17 and in our meeting with him along with other PPP leaders made clear about the ordinance’s interpretation covering all of our “retrenched” staffers.”

The UBL president Atif Bukhari further said that it is the government responsibility and not of the UBL management to provide jobs to these former UBL employees since the Bank was privatised in 2001-02. “We need not give a response to the employees’ letters.”

He denied any sort of constant contact between the government and the UBL management to find a way out of the issue as repeatedly claimed by Reinstatement Committee boss Mian Raza Rabbani.

Anwar Usmaini says: “Over 5,000 were terminated from UBL and there may not be more than 2,000 willing to avail the opportunity of re-employment as they are working in other organisations, or have died or may not accept the conditions.”

Usmani claimed that reinstatement of UBL employees was on agenda of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. “She always told us that the employees should take the period as if they are availing leaves.”

Usmani wrote to the UBL President on Feb 14 a letter titled “Reinstatement of Service in UBL as per direction of President of Pakistan issued through Ordinance dated 14 Feb, 2009” that remains unresponded.

“You are requested to please reinstate our services as per directions of our worthy president, who has not only fulfilled the promise of our beloved Leader Shaheed Mohatarma Benazir Bhutto, but also has implemented the manifesto of Pakistan Peoples Party,” the letter reads.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 15 (APP): The Central Action Committee of United Bank Limited (UBL)’s sacked employees, who were removed from services during the period of 1996 and 1998, held a meeting here on Sunday which appreciated the sincere efforts of the PPP led government for their reinstatement.
The committee welcomed the Ordinance titled “Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Ordinance 2009,” promulgated by President Asif Ali Zardari here on Friday.
Chairman of the committee Muhammad Anwar Usmani talking to APP said with the reinstatement of sacked employees, the government has fulfilled promises made by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto about mitigating their financial sufferings.
He said 5416 employees of the bank were showed the door under the forced golden hand shake scheme, rendering them jobless and making their lives miserable.
Usmani said whenever PPP came into power, it always protected rights of workers besides providing more employment opportunities to jobless youth, giving them guarantee of better future in the country.

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday promulgated an ordinance to reinstate people removed from service between Nov 1996 and Dec 1998. The ordinance will apply to those employees who were sacked after the dismissal of the Benazir Bhutto government in Nov 1996. It would cover state-owned corporations, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies and government organisations.
However, the cases of those dismissed, removed or terminated from service on account of closure of organisation, absence from duty, misappropriation of government money and medical unfitness will be reviewed by a board to be headed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court or a high court and comprising secretaries of law and establishment division.


UBL RETRENCHED EMPLOYEES
Govt to resolve retrenched UBL employees’ issue;Thursday, November 13, 2008 By our correspondent KARACHI: A delegation of United Bank Limited (UBL) Retrenched Employees’ Action Committee, led by its Chairman Amiruddin, met Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination, Mian Raza Rabbani the other day and informed him about woes of over 5,000 dismissed UBL employees.According to a press release of the action committee, the chairman of the committee informed the federal minister that the age of a majority of dismissed UBL employees was less than 40 years so they had plenty of time before retirement for rendering services for the growth and development of the bank. He said that thousands of valuable bank employees had been dismissed due to certain misguided policies. Rabbani assured the delegation of his full cooperation to resolve the issue of retrenched employees of UBL, especially early reinstatement of those employees who had many years left before reaching the age of superannuation.

Monday, October 20, 2008 By Ansar Abbasi, ISLAMABAD:
The government has finalized a list of almost 6,500 political appointees of Benazir Bhutto’s second term for their reappointment, who were subsequently sacked. A ministerial committee, which was constituted by the prime minister under Minister for Privatization, Ports and Shipping Naveed Qamar, has concluded its deliberations on the contentious move of reappointing the sacked appointees after a lapse of 10-12 years. The committee, according to a source, has forwarded the case to the cabinet with recommendations that almost 6,500 persons should be reappointed afresh.The committee did not agree to their reinstatement because in such a case the government would have to pay their dues for all the past 10-12 years, a financial burden that the public kitty cannot afford at this stage when the country is fast heading towards a serious financial chaos.The issue is expected to be taken up in the next cabinet meeting, which would be a formality as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has already given his in principle sanction to this move, which the bureaucracy generally believes would have grave administrative fallouts.Those recommended for reappointment include almost all those appointed during Bhutto’s second tenure. However, the committee has disapproved the reappointment of those who were sacked on disciplinary grounds, including unauthorized absence.Amongst the recommended cases of reappointment, there is no mention of the retrenched UBL employees, whose number was a little over 5,416. The Intelligence Bureau and the Sui Southern Gas Company would mainly be at the receiving end of this government’s contentious decision as almost 4,000 of such sacked appointees belong to the SSGC and the IB.Hundreds of the sacked political appointees of the Sui Northern Gas Company would also benefit from this. The bureaucracy was generally averse to this idea but because of the political masters’ inclination to go for this, no bureaucrat objected to this despite their serious apprehension that it would lead to administrative mess mainly owing to expected heavy litigations that is bound to follow.Almost 5,416 retrenched employees of the UBL were also promised reappointment by the PPP leadership, including the party’s slain leader Benazir Bhutto, but this ministerial committee excluded the UBL lot from those being reappointed.These UBL employees were forcibly retrenched on Oct 12, 1998 — exactly one year before the fall of Nawaz Sharif’s government. The cut-out date fixed by the ministerial committee for the reappointed does not cover Oct 12, 1998.The bureaucracy in the Finance Ministry wanted the deferment of this controversial move till the time the country got out of the present economic crisis. The government is presently under pressure to reduce the non-development expenditures but this move would further add pressures to the public kitty.A source suggested that the cases of sacked political appointees be referred to a scrutiny committee, comprising representatives of different government departments, for the purpose of proper evaluation of such reinstatements in case-to-case basis. The source was convinced administrative and financial disarray could be avoided this way and the concerned departments could be saved from being harmed by the return of their sacked employees.

LARKANA, April 28: The action committee of the sacked employees of the United Bank Limited has called upon the government to reinstate over four thousand employees in the light of a Federal Service Tribunal’s decision.Speaking at a press conference here on Sunday, the committee’s chairman Mohammed Ramzan Sahto and coordinator Khadim Hussain Hulio alleged that the Nawaz Sharif government had sacked the employees without giving them time or assigning any reason on 13 October, 1997.The employees, promoted in 1994 and recruited during Ms Benazir Bhutto’s tenure, were shunted under an excuse of rightsizing and downsizing by the then president of UBL, Zubir Soomro.They said that amounted to the economic murder of thousands of families of the employees.The favored officials were just transferred and absorbed in the computer section while others were sacked, they said while adding that, in Larkana region 82 employees were sacked.The Sindh High Court had referred the matter to the Federal Service Tribunal which in its verdict in August 1998 had asked the UBL management to immediately reinstate the sacked employees but the management did not follow the orders, they said.On the one hand the UBL high-ups refused to comply with the orders of the tribunal while on the other it hired consultants at higher remunerations, they claimed.They said, later Mr. Nawaz Sharif had ordered the reinstatement of the sacked employees but again the refusal came from the then president of the UBL.They also referred to their meeting with PPP leader Benazir Bhutto who was a bitter opponent of sacking of employees and had assured them of reinstatement of all the retrenched employees if PPP came to power.They appealed to PPP co-chairperson Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani to come to their rescue and reinstate the sacked employees of the UBL.

SC directs UBL to pay pension benefits to retrenched staff ISLAMABAD:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the United Bank to pay pension benefits to all those retrenched employees who were discharged from the duties during the last government of Nawaz Sharif in the name of downsizing.The Supreme Court while deciding the 135 identical petitions asked the UBL administration on pay pension benefits to all those retrenched employees who were entitled for the same on the day they were laid off from bank's strength.The court also directed to adjust the loans granted to these employees on the basis of the conditions agreed to at the time of sanctioning the loan. The loan should be recovered according to the superannuating age of the said employees, the court said.The bench comprising Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan, Justice Mohammad Bashir Jahangiri and Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui was hearing the appeals filed by the UBL against the decision of the Federal Services Tribunal.The Chief Justice observed that it was a massive manslaughter. Where would they go? Were they given any retirement benefits?Counsel for United Bank, Raja Akram said that the bank was already in shambles and the trouble would be aggravated if it were asked to pay pension benefits to these employees.The Chief Justice observed that already lot had been plundered from the bank. Payment of retirement benefits would not harm the bank. "If the retrenched employees would not be given such benefits they might go for unlawful options like dacoity.According to details, almost 5,416 employees of UBL had been removed from services in the name of downsizing during the last government of Nawaz Sharif. The retrenched employees challenged the decision of UBL in the High Court.Later, the employees were asked to go to Services Tribunal in light of new amendment in the rules made by the PML government.The Federal Services Tribunal asked the bank to reinstate the employees. The UBL administration challenged the decision in the Supreme Court.The Apex Court disposed of the petitions with the directions that the retirement benefits should be given to all those employees who were entitled to the same at the time of retrenchment. The court also directed to resolve the issue within four months.The court also observed that if the employees do not feel satisfied with the decision of the Pensioners' Board they could challenge it at the proper forum.

ÑAPPNAWABSHAH, Oct 12: Father of seven children Gul Mohammed Unnar, who had been a grade-III officer in the Doulatpur Saffan branch of United Bank, now serves food to customers at a small roadside eatery to earn money to feed his own family and that of his deceased brother.He is among the 5,500 employees of the bank, including officers of senior grades, who were sacked on Oct 12, 1997 in the Nawaz government as punishment for getting promotion during the second tenure of People’s Party’s government in 1994.The bank management did not even offer them voluntarily retirement.Gul Mohammad got the shock of his life when an official from the head office asked him to sign a letter as he arrived in the bank on Oct 12, 1997.Without prior warning and in a surreptitious manner, the management had fired him in seconds. Gul Mohammed had no other option but to sign the letter and go back home silently.Father of two boys and five girls and at the middle of his career it was very difficult for him to make a decision about his future. He had pinned hopes on the funds he was supposed receive from the bank including provident fund but he received the second shock when he was told that the bank had adjusted loans he had obtained during service against his funds against Rs700,000 funds.Finally, he received just Rs125,000, which were almost no help in improving his condition. Unfortunately, he failed to land a good job and was so hard pressed for money that he had to accept the job of a waiter at a small restaurant to feed his family and the family of his dead brother.The bank’s management deducted and adjusted entire loan amount and taxes at the time of retrenchment in violation of the service rules and almost all the sacked officials received peanuts in the end.Secondly, the bank did offer pension to a number of employees having more than 25 years of service but freezed the amount at the rate, which was paid in 1997. Surprisingly, they were getting the same amount even after passage of almost 11 years, which they had received at the time of retrenchment with no increases despite several increments announced by former governments.Late Benazir Bhutto had strongly criticised the bank’s decision of downsizing and promised that she would reinstate all the employees as soon as her party came back to power.She had told a group of employees during her visit to the shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai on Dec 17, 2007, that she remembered her promise and would reinstate the bank employees if her party formed the government after 2008 elections.Out of 5,500, a number of employees have died over the past 11 years, some have joined other banks and many others have reached the age of superannuation, leaving only 1500-2000 who demand reinstatement.Gul Mohammed and thousands others like him have appealed to the president and prime minister to right the wrong done to them during the second government of Nawaz Sharif by directing the UBL management to reinstate the employees with all due benefits and fulfil the promise of Ms Benazir Bhutto.