Whenever Pakistan’s economic hub Karachi faces a day of shutter down, the media reports say that Rs 3-4 billion loss has occurred. Recently the metropolitan city saw a complete shutter down on which President Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) Haroon Agar statement was published ...

ISLAMABAD  – Fire fighters are facing financial problems as they are paid a nominal salary amounting only from ten to fifteen thousands. Sources said that in contrast, the income of workers of Rescue 1122 has experienced a double increase, while fire fighters go neglected. The fire ...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, taking notice of the low pay scale of teachers at a school in Sargodha, directed the administration to ensure the payment of salaries to the teachers at par with those in other cities of the province.Hearing a case regarding the lack of ...

  G Mursalin Marwat and Muqaddam Khan   PESHAWAR – Lady health workers and lady health supervisors held a protest demonstration across the province to press the government for acceptance of their demands.The LHWs held protest demonstration in front of the main gate of District ...

ISLAMABAD  - Secretary Finance Waqar Masood on Friday said that Rs 2.20 billion have been released to the Railways department while Rs 15 billion subsidy has been released to the Railways since July of 2011.The finance secretary said that Rs2.20 billion were released to the department for ...

LAHORE - PML-Q while alleging the Punjab government for giving job quota to its MNAs and MPAs of work-charged and other categories recruitment in City District Government demanded provision of salaries to thousands of work-charged employees, besides regularizing them. PML-Q secretary information ...

LAHORE The work-charge employees are running from one office to another for getting their salaries of three months, but the Punjab government has so far not considered the issue despite the fact they are still working and carrying out their responsibilities. Secondly, the sword of sending them ...

LAHORE (APP) - Pakistan Railways Administration is unable to control the continuous delay in the train operations even after the release of Rs2 billion by the finance ministry. Divisional Superintendent Lahore Javaid Anwar Boobak told that the amount of Rs2 billion was not sufficient for the ...

Our Staff reporter TOBA TEK SINGH - The Health Departments community midwives staged a protest on Tuesday outside DCO office against the non-payment of their salaries. On the occasion, they told the newsmen that they had not been paid monthly salaries for last 14 months and were facing great ...

ISLAMABAD - Appreciating the recommendations of the upper house on Finance Bill 2011, the parliamentarians from both treasury and opposition benches in the National Assembly on Thursday urged the government to give these a serious consideration. The Senate has forwarded 66 recommendations in the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - PIA Officers would get salary increase and revision in Pay scales soon, said Managing Director PIA, Mr. Nadeem Khan Yousufzai while addressing PIA officers at a function organized by PIA Senior Staff Association in honour of the PIA Retiring Officers at the airlines ...

LAHORE - All Pakistan Irrigation Labour Federation Central President Ch Khushi Mohammad Khokhar has demanded the government to arrange departments Lahore, Sheikhupura and Mankeera Divisions employees salaries who had been blocked from the last three to eleven months. He said this while addressing ...

KARACHI - The aggrieved employees of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) who have been facing late payment of salaries, blocked MA Jinnah Road on Wednesday to give vent to their frustration and demanded timely payment of their salaries. The irate employees blocked MA Jinnah Road for all ...

LAHORE - The government should increase salaries of low income class and should focus on agriculture and growth of small and medium enterprises besides taking concrete measures to cut down inflation and unemployment in the forthcoming budget for fiscal year 2010-11. The political leadership should ...

LAHORE - The speakers at a seminar organized by The Nation Forum at Hameed Nizami Hall have urged the government to make the basic necessities of life accessible for the masses who are living a miserable life due to ever-increasing price hike in the country. The participants of the seminar who ...

LAHORE - The national flag carrier PIA, which is suffering huge losses of over Rs 74 billion, has made immediate raise in salaries for pilots on B777 of Rs70,000 per month with service duration condition. This translates into hike of 28 percent for junior pilots and almost 17.5 percent for senior ...

LAHORE - All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) has demanded the immediate raise in salaries at least by 200 per cent, besides medical allowance of Rs 2,000 per month and 60 per cent increase in house rent. APCA central president Ch Muhammad Afzal made these demands while addressing at The Nation ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and its have signed Shaheed Benazir Charter of Demands; starting from June 12 till June 11 2,010. According to the agreement, the salaries and other allowances for the employees of PSM have been enhanced. Pakistan Steel Mills announced incentives-laden package ...

ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Managing Director Pakistan Baitul Maal (PBM) and former member of National Assembly Zamarrud Khan has suggested the government to make a deduction of Rs 5 per month from the salaries of all government employees for starting mega welfare projects in order to curb the poverty menace ...

KARACHI - The new management of the KESC has got its first attractive salaries worth millions of rupees, reliable sources told The Nation here on Sunday. As the government has announced that the salaries in all the companies and government offices should be issued before Eid, the KESC management ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - President of Zari Taraqiati Bank Ltd (ZTBL), Muhammad Zaka Ashraf here on Saturday announced 20 percent increase in the salaries for the bank employees. Announcement to this effect was made by the President of the Bank, while addressing a large number of Bank workers and ...

LAHORE - The federal government has paid last seven months salaries to deposed judges of the Lahore High Court. All the judges have accepted their salaries that were issued from the discretionary fund of the prime minister, the sources further said. Justice MA Shahid Siddqiui initially ...

ISLAMABAD - Quite a number of contractual lecturers and teachers of Model Colleges have been deprived of their salaries because of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), which renewed the contracts without the approval of Ministry of Education. Sources have disclosed that the Federal ...

LAHORE - Chairman State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) of Pakistan, Kamal Afsar has said that the board was taking up the issue of raising the salaries of employees and officers. He was speaking at a dinner reception given by the officers' federation here at a local hotel. Executive ...