ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah has extended an olive branch to the protesting employees, and assured them that the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) will not be abolished.

“We have been assured by Rana Sahib that neither any employee will be laid off nor the USC will be closed,” Utility Stores CBA Union General Secretary Raja Miskeen told Dawn.

The delegation of all three unions of the USC held a meeting with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah late Wednesday evening.

The employees have been protesting at D-Chowk since August 26, after the federal cabinet last week announced its intention to shut down........

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