By Admin 
Government employees of Balochistan announced a pen-down strike on Monday (December 29, 2025). They are angry with the government for a long time because of its habit of ignoring their demands. According to the report of Pakistan’s famous newspaper Dawn, Ali Asghar Bangulzai, General Secretary of the big organization of employees ‘Balochistan Grand Alliance’ said in a statement that due to the indifference and incompetence of the government, the protest of the employees has reached the second phase.
He said that the government employees’ organizations associated with the Balochistan Grand Alliance are conducting a pen-down strike (stop work strike) on Monday, after which there will be a complete lockdown in all the government institutions of the province on December 30 and 31. He announced that emergency services in the health department will remain operational during the protest.
In the month of October, there was a round of protests in Kalat, Pakistan also. Then the employees had opposed the decision of the Balochistan government to include the levy force in the police department. Levies workers had protested across Balochistan after the provincial government issued a notification announcing the merger. According to a report by The Balochistan Post, members of the Levies force had organized a rally in Kalat, which started from the Levies headquarters and returned to the headquarters via Shahi Bazaar, Hospital Road, Harboi Road, Darbar Road and other key areas.
The protesters had demonstrated strongly on the streets against the merger of Levies Force into the police. Addressing the protesters, Levies officers and employees said that the Levies force has a history of 142 years and has played a vital role in maintaining law and order in Balochistan, with many members losing their lives in the line of duty.
He said that earlier attempts at a similar merger had failed and warned that doing so would fail again. The protesters had urged the Balochistan government to implement the High Court’s stay order on the merger and immediately withdraw the recently issued notification. According to a government notification issued on October 16, the Balochistan government, after getting approval from the provincial cabinet, has merged the provincial and federal levy forces with the police in six of the seven administrative divisions of the province, and declared these divisions as A-areas, Dawn reported.
The six divisions where the merger of Levy Force and Police has been approved include Quetta, Rakhshan, Kalat, Makran, Zhob and Nasirabad. However, the levy force in Sibi division, which includes Sibi, Kohlu, Dera Bugti, Harnai and Ziarat districts, has not been included in the Balochistan Police.
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