Tens of thousands of Federal government employees including president, prime minister, federal ministers and top judges, could not receive their monthly salaries as Accountant General Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) workers continued their strike for the 26th consecutive day on Wednesday.
Over 7, 000 employees of AGPR are on strike over the past many days in support of their demands for pay raise and improvement in service structure. No work is being performed by the APGR employees, who simply come to their offices, mark their attendance and sit idle for rest of the day. They were calling for pay raise at par with salaries of other federal workers besides audit and pension allowance and service structure.
The AGPR workers said they were forced to go on strike after their demands were ignored by the government. AGPR action committee president warned that if their demands were not fulfilled, they would stop other benefits to be released for Eid package.
On the other hand, federal government employees who are normally paid on the first of every month, went home without any salary to the dismay of their families. There is no time limit by which date the salary would be paid to them because of the disorderly procedure being followed in Pakistan where the Finance Ministry allocates funds, concerned departments prepare the salary bills and then the cheques are issued by the AGPR.
AGPR strike: Thousands without salary
