Federal Finance Minister and senior PML-N leader Ishaq Dar has announced to increase the salary of government employees by 10%. According to media reports this decision was made after directions from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Ishaq Dar while talking with media said that he received this recommendation from a committee which was made for to review the possibility of an increase in the salaries of government employees.
The committee recommended to increase the salary by 7.5%. But pension was increased by 10% therefore government decided to increase the salary by 10%. Ishaq Dar also said that we could have raised government employees’ salaries by 30% but because of lot of loans we are only increasing salary by 10%.
When the Federal Budget 2013-14 was announced Government didn’t raise the salary of government employees which was widely criticized and demonstrations was also held in different cities by government servants.