Tag: Salary

ISLAMABAD: The Senate's Standing Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday directed the management of Pakistan Television to resolve the issue of pensions and wages of...

LARKANA: A total of 55 employees of Larkana Municipal Corporation (LMC) held a protest against the non-payment of eight-month salaries here on Wednesday. They demonstrated...

FAISALABAD: As many as 331 house officers of the Allied and District Headquarters hospitals have not yet received their salaries for the month of...

ISLAMABAD: The teachers working at 6,000 feeder schools run by National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) have not yet received their salaries of the...

ISLAMABAD: Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad’s embattled Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Javed Ashraf has shown the door to deputy treasurer of the university, Fayyaz Muhammad,...

Delay likely to spoil Eid celebrations Spokesperson says cheques soon to be deposited in schools' accounts Officials receiving threats of protests, sources LAHORE:...

PIMS spokesperson says issue will be sorted out without further ado ISLAMABAD: Though the Finance Ministry has released Rs 100 million supplementary grant for the...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday questioned former foreign minister Khawaja Asif if had used his authority to get a raise in salary while...

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar said on Friday that he would take his salary only after all the government employees...

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani here on Wednesday announced one month’s pay as honorariums to employees of the Senate. The chairman made the announcement on...

LAHORE: The District Health Authority (DHA), Nishtar Town, has failed to release salaries to its Christian staff working on anti-dengue programme, it has been...

KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) on Monday rejected the education department's appeal against the verdict of a Tribunal which had ordered payment...

ISLAMABAD: The Federation of all Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) threatened to protest throughout the country if the concerned authorities continued to ignore...

  The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is considering a proposal to increase its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Brand Hildon’s salary by Rs 0.8 million, spokesman...

  Members of National Assembly on both the treasury and opposition benches have expressed reservations over low salaries and have demanded that their wages be set equal to judges of the Supreme Court or the provincial assembly members of Balochistan. During Question Hour, Parliamentary Secretary for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal, while replying to question of Shahida Rehmani, said he knows salaries of parliamentarians are low and that they are ready to increase them if the speaker issue directions in this regard. The Speaker said that he was ready to do so if the Finance Ministry asked the National Assembly Secretariat. Maulana Meer Zaman said that his salary is Rs 17,000 and after factoring in all the allowances, he gets Rs 60,000 to Rs 70,000 which is not enough to make ends meet. Giving details of his expenditures, he said that he pays Rs 10,000 as rent of Parliament Lodges and Rs 10,000 as gas and electricity bills. He said that grade 16 employees get higher pay than parliamentarians and demanded wages equal to the salary of Balochistan Members of Provincial Assemblies. IMPLEMENTING NAP: Meanwhile, the National Assembly was informed that operation against terrorism is going on across the country under the National Action Plan (NAP). Parliamentary Secretary for Interior Maryam Aurangzeb informed the House during Question Hour that a number of terrorists have been arrested in Punjab during the operation. She said that combing operation, Madrasa registration and action against hate speech and material are being taken throughout the country. The parliamentary secretary said that the steps of the government to control incidents of terrorism in Karachi had resulted in significant reduction in incidents of terrorism. To a question, she said a total of 251,624 Pakistani nationals have been repatriated to Pakistan from abroad during the tenure of the present government since June 1, 2013 to February this year. Parliamentary Secretary for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan told the House that total external debt of the country stands at $53.4 billion dollars. He said that when the incumbent government took over, the debt stood at $48.1 billion and that there had been an increase of $5.3 billion during this period. Rana Afzal said that through prudent policies, the government had succeeded in reducing fiscal deficit from 8.4 per cent to 5.5 per cent and that it will be reduced further to 5.1 per cent this year. ISLAMABAD SAFE CITY PROJECT: Replying to a question Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the House that Safe City Project Islamabad is being implemented at a cost of over $124 million. He said that exit and entry points are being monitored under this project. He said that 1,800 CCTV cameras have been installed in the federal capital under the project. He said the project is at trial stage and will be formally inaugurated next month. Parliamentary Secretary for Planning Syed Saqlain Bukhari told the House that under CPEC three kinds of projects including energy, road and railways infrastructure and development of Gwadar are being implemented. He clarified that Orange Line Metro Train project in Lahore is not part of CPEC. He said that the Punjab government is implementing this project through bank loans. Responding to a calling attention notice moved by Asiya Naz Tanoli and others regarding dilapidated condition of the IJP Road from Faizabad to Pirwadhai, Parliamentary Secretary for Interior Maryam Aurangzeb said the road will be completely repaired soon. LEGISLATION: The House adopted a resolution extending the Private Powers and Infrastructure Board (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 for a further period of 120 days. The National Assembly on Thursday passed four bills including "The Corporate Restructuring Bill, 2015", "The Financial Institutions (Recovery of Finances) (Amendment) Bill, 2015", "The Deposit Protection Corporation Bill, 2015" and "The Financial Institutions (Secured Transaction) Bill, 2016". The House will be in session again today (Friday) at 10:30AM.

  The delay in release of salaries to a large number of newly-appointed traffic policemen in Sindh has created unrest among them. Official sources said that...

Eid arrived earlier than expected for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members of the National Assembly as they have been paid Rs 850,000 each in accumulated...