Lahore – Senior advisor to chief minister Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa assured the office bearers of the Punjab PCS Officers Association on Tuesday that all their demands accepted by the government will be ‘honoured’, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The decision was taken after a meeting of a delegation of PCS Officers Association with the chief minister’s cabinet committee consisting of Zulfiqar Khosa, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, Additional Chief Secretary Sami Saeed, Secretary Services Sikander Sultan Raja and the law secretary.
Khosa, who was heading the committee, assured the delegation that the CM will write to the federal government to abolish the ‘notorious’ 1993 sharing formula introduced by former prime minister Moeen Qureshi. He further assured that the CM will ask the prime minister to allow National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA) training for 40 PCS officers as a special case.
A committee consisting of the ACS, the secretary services, secretary regulation and PCS Officers Association President Rai Manzur Nasir and his two nominees will sit together for resolving all issues. Nasir said the government had agreed to resolve the issue in July 2010 and July 31 was set the deadline to resolve all outstanding and agreed upon issues.
However, he said after a lapse of six months, the government has implemented only one out of 12 demands agreed by the government. He said the PCS officers have been trying to meet the CM through his secretary, who is again a DMG officer, but in vain. He said the governance will be affected ‘severely’ if the entire provincial management service officers remain ‘disturbed’.
PCS officers’ demands will be honoured: Khosa
