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Pakistan officials to stage protest against non-payment of executive allowance

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Islamabad: The officers and low cadre groups of some more ministries, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting have decided to protest against the non-payment of executive allowance, The News International reported.
The employees of different ministries who do not have access to the executive allowance will hold protests outside the Pakistan Secretariat from next week. The Economists Group and technical cadres from the Planning Ministry have been boycotting the important official meetings that have been taking place in the last couple of weeks, as per The News International report. Officers from the Foreign Office, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, MS Wing of Establishment Division and Cabinet Division have also decided to become part of a joint protest rally in front of the Ministry of Finance from next week, as per the news report.
The officers have said that the executive allowance was given to influential groups like DMG and others. However, they noted that the officers of the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting do not have access to executive allowance, leaving them with no option but to hold a protest, as per The News International report.

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The protesters have said that they have been waiting for the executive allowance for several months. However, their demand has been ignored by the government. “We were given lolly pop but the commitments never materialised,” The News International quoted officials as saying.
Earlier in October, government employees, including a large number of teachers, held a protest in front of Parliament House demanding an increase in salary, Dawn reported. The protesters called for the elimination of the increasing disparity in pay and privileges of different cadres.
The protest was held under the banner of the All Government Employees Grand Alliance (AGEGA) and the Federal Government College Teachers Association (FGCTA), as per the Dawn report. The protesters gathered at the Q Block of the Pakistan Secretariat and later carried out a rally towards Parliament House. Carrying banners and placards, protesters shouted slogans in support of their demands.

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The former J-K chief minister also warned the BJP not to be “attackers” stating that the people of Kashmir know how to “chase them away”. The PDP chief’s remarks came while addressing the party’s youth convention here.
“I want to tell the BJP that when the attackers came from Pakistan, the Indian Army had not come by then, the people did not have any guns in their hands, but still they chased the attackers away. So, don’t be attackers, the Kashmiris know how to chase them away,” Mufti said.
“Kashmir is connected to India through its Constitution. But you’ve (BJP) destroyed the Constitution. India doesn’t belong to BJP. Till the time you don’t resolve the Kashmir issue, you won’t see any results no matter how many troops you send here. We won’t let it become the India of the BJP,” she added.

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Lambasting the Centre for conducting the panchayat elections in J-K after the abrogation of Article 370 from the then state, Mufti asked the top leadership of the Centre to contest the panchayat polls “if these elections are so good”.
“We established the relation of the Constitution with you, which you destroyed. You played with our respect. This would not work. If the panchayat elections are so good, then what are you doing on the top posts? Come down to the panchayat. If you say to the entire world that you scrapped the Assembly and Constitution of J-K, but conducted the panchayat elections, then step down from the top positions and contest the panchayat elections,” she said.
The panchayat elections were held in 2020, nearly a year after the special status in the form of Articles 370 and 35A was scrapped from the Constitution in August 2019.
Mufti, while mentioning the India of MK Gandhi and former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, said that she talks about the India that Nehru’s great-grandson Rahul Gandhi is searching for.
“The Kashmiri people ask which country did I merge with and why? I want to tell them that when Hindus and Muslims were fighting in the name of religion, Kashmir was the only place where the Muslims who were in the majority here had saved the Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus and Sikhs. I am talking about the India of not today, but the India which Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi and Jawahar Lal Nehru’s great-grandson Rahul Gandhi are searching for today. I talk of that India which Nehru and Gandhi had made together,” she said.

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