Today’s outlook: SC hears funds case, Sadpara search operation
Notes from the newsroom SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Feb 10, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
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Here are some of the stories we are following today [Wednesday]:
Justice Qazi Faez Isa has taken notice of Prime Minister Imran Khan s move to announce development grants worth Rs500 million. The Supreme Court will hear the case today. Negotiations between the government and the All Pakistan Clerk Association remain unsuccessful. Government employees across the country have boycotted their jobs demanding an increase in salaries and other benefits. Three labourers were killed in a fire at a factory in Karachi s Baldia Town. The fire has been doused. The Shahbaz Sharif Sports Complex in Rawalpindi has been reopened for sports after serving as a coronavirus field hospital for 11 months. Practise matches between Pakistan and South Africa have begun at Lahore s Gaddafi Stadium. The search operati
NOWSHERA: The government employees on Tuesday protested against abolition of pension.
They organised a march from the government high school No 1 to Shubra Chowk, Nowshera, and later converged at the press club.
The rally was led by all employees union district president Idrees Khan Hashmi, All Pakistan Clerks’ Association central general secretary Ghulam Sarwar Khan, provincial president of all Class-IV employees union Afsar Khan Kheshgi and others.
Addressing the protesters, Idrees Hashmi said the employees would continue to put pressure on the government to take back the decisions regarding abolition of pension and non-implementation of annual increments.
He said employees also rejected the decision to extend retirement age from 60 to 63 years.
The protests by government employees have been fruitful in moving the federal government to consider increasing their salaries and pensions. An important
GUJRAT: Revenue staff in Bhera register their protest against the arrest of AC. Dawn
CHINIOT/GUJRAT: Administrative and revenue staff in various parts of the province observed a strike on Monday against the alleged detaining and handcuffing of the Sahiwal tehsil assistant commissioner (AC) in Sargodha district on Saturday on the orders of a civil judge.
Public dealing and other official matters remained suspended in the offices of deputy commissioners, assistant commissioners, revenue officers, assistant revenue officers, patwaris and other staff as well as land record centres in various tehsils of the province against the alleged maltreatment of Assistant Commissioner Raja Muhammad Haider by a civil judge in Sahiwal.However, some deputy commissioners continued working from home.