K-P’s Corona Task Force await allowance payment
Frontline teams in 11 districts have not been paid since Nov 2020
K-P police urge media personnel to follow rules while reporting terror attacks. PHOTO: FILE
DI KHAN:
Members of the Corona Task Force in 11 districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) have not been paid their monthly allowances for the past seven months.
Talking to The Express Tribune an official of the task force said that since last November all the payment of the allowances was stopped by the Health Ministry due to unidentified reasons. When the matter was reported in the media, the provincial government directed the Health and Finance Departments to immediately make the payments.