Pakistan News: Despite all efforts, Pakistan’s financial situation is not improving. The Pakistani government has taken huge loans from many countries around the world including the IMF. Still the government does not have money to run the country. To deal with the continuously worsening situation, the Government of Pakistan has now taken a big decision. The government of Pakistan has announced to eliminate 1.5 lakh jobs in one stroke. Job market experts say that due to this decision the future of millions of Pakistani youth has gone into darkness. There are already lakhs of youth unemployed in Pakistan. They are not even getting low paying jobs. Now with this decision they will have more options.
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb gave information
Pakistan Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Tuesday announced that the government has decided to eliminate 1.5 lakh jobs to cut costs and increase efficiency. He also said that the government will cut the number of associated agencies by half. Aurangzeb said in a press conference that we are reducing the size of the federal government in a phased manner. Till now 80 departments have been consolidated into 40. He said that the government intends to complete these reforms by June 2025. He said that 60 percent of the vacant posts were eliminated, which is equivalent to about 1.5 lakh government jobs.
Concerns increased regarding national security
In a surprising development in Pakistan, a committee of the National Assembly was informed that more than 22,000 bureaucrats in the country have dual citizenship, raising concerns over national security. The National Assembly is the lower house of the Pakistani Parliament. According to the Express Tribune newspaper, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Internal Affairs met under the chairmanship of Raja Khurram Nawaz on Monday. The members in the meeting expressed concern over this practice and demanded strict action to ban this practice, especially for bureaucrats, judges and MPs. The meeting discussed the proposed law under which Pakistani passports will be given to citizens of countries with which Pakistan has dual citizenship agreements. During the meeting, it was revealed that around 22,000 bureaucrats have dual citizenship. Committee member Abdul Qadir Patel expressed surprise that dual citizenship is prohibited for members of the National Assembly and judges, while there is no such restriction for bureaucrats. He proposed that a provision should be included in the Bill to ensure that persons with dual citizenship are not appointed as bureaucrats.
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