LAHORE, April 16: Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to raise salaries of all government and private employees in the view of upcoming month of Ramadan and ongoing surge of inflation in the country.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader has asked government to increase pay of its employees as holy month of Ramadan is nearing and the PTI government has brought a record inflation in the country.
He demanded to increases the salaries of employees by minimum Rs3000 and stressed that government should ensure due action in this regard. He further said there should be an immediate increase up to 20% in salaries for those earning Rs100000 per month. The increment should be for both private as well as government employees. Shehbaz also said that in PML-N regime the inflation was at 47 years low but it has now reached to 9.4% ultimately burdening the poor of this country. He said if government did not give relief to poor then it will add insult to the injury in the holy month of Ramadan. – DNA
