- The cabinet approves an increase of up to 188% in wages.
- The federal office is a circulation summary.
- Approval occurs more than a month after NA has adopted the allowance bill.
Islamabad: The federal cabinet has approved an amazing increase up to 188% in the salaries of ministers and advisers, sources said Geo News Friday.
According to sources, the wages of federal ministers, state ministers and advisers were increased until 188%, the federal office approving the circulation summary.
Sources have added that after approval, the salary of a federal minister, a Minister of State and a Councilor will be 519,000 rupees, while before, the federal ministers were paid Rs 200,000 and that the state ministers received 180,000 rupees.
In addition, sources have said that the salary of federal ministers had been increased by 159%, while the salaries of state ministers and advisers to the Prime Minister experienced an amazing increase up to 188%.
Development occurred more than a month after the National Assembly adopted the members of the 2025 Bill of Salaries and Compensation of Parliament – already approved by the Senate – with a majority vote, increasing the salary of the members of the Parliament.
The bill proposes to increase the salaries of parliamentarians from RS218,000 to RS519,000, which aligns them with the salary of federal secretaries.
The sworn political rivals of all parliamentary parties, including the Pakistani peoples’ party (PPP), Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI), PML-N and others, were on the same length of waiting concerning a massive increase in their wages.
In addition, a few days earlier, the Minister of Finance, Muhammad Aurangzeb, said that no proposal was being studied to increase the wages and pensions of federal government employees in the upcoming budget.
However, he noted that the government examined the ceiling and the limits of hiring and housing allowances.
A large number of government functions across the country organized a protest demonstration last month outside the Parliament, an increase in wages, protection of pensions and the end of the privatization of government institutions.
The demonstrators, under the banner of the Great Alliance of Government Employees (ACAGA), urged the government to take immediate measures to resolve their financial difficulties in the midst of Sky inflation.