Thi-Qar communications employees stage sit-in to demand financial rights

Nassiriya-Sit THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: Employees of the communications and post department in Thi-Qar on Thursday staged a sit-in in front of their department in Nassiriya, demanding their financial rights from the Finance Ministry, the deputy president of the province’s engineers said. “The finance ministry adopts a double-standard policy in dealing with the post’s employees,” Hussein Mohamed Barakat told IraqiNews.com. “The sit-in will continue until our demands are fulfilled and we are payed our financial rights,” Barakat added. Thi-Qar, 380 km south of Baghdad, has an area of 12,900 square kilometers (4,980.7 sq mi). In 2003 the estimated population of the governorate was 1,454,200 people. Thi-Qar was the second Iraqi province where security responsibilities were transferred from the Multi-National Force (MNF) to the Iraqis. The province’s capital is the city of al-Nassiriya. It also includes the ancient Sumerian ruins of Ur, Eridu, Lagash and Ngirsu. Before 1976 the province was known as al-Muntafiq. SH (P) 1