College teachers across Sindh suspended academic activities following a call by the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) to press for long-pending demands related to promotions, staffing, and allowances.
The association announced a sit-in outside Bilawal House in Karachi on February 12 after more than a month of protests yielded no response from the Sindh government or the College Education Department. Key demands include implementing the five-tier formula, convening departmental promotion committees to fill vacant lecturer posts, holding Board-I and Board-II meetings, and adjusting sanctioned staff strength according to student-teacher ratios.
Teachers are also calling for the establishment of new colleges, merit-based appointments, restoration of frozen allowances, payment of MPhil and PhD allowances as per court rulings, improved college infrastructure, furniture, laboratory equipment, and timely provision of textbooks for computer science, commerce, and arts subjects. Office-bearers from Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkur joined the boycott, reiterating their demands and escalating pressure on the provincial authorities.