The politics of pay, pension and second pensions
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February 6, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Under the Financial Rules in vogue since British times, officials who were re-employed after retirement were entitled to draw only a ‘pay differential.’ But during General Zia’s dictatorship, these rules were changed to allow full pay in addition to a pension to the re-employed.
Sources in the civil bureaucracy say that even ex-servicemen employed on civil posts were allowed by the Zia regime to draw a second pension after spending 10 years in the civil service.
A constitutional petition filed before the Supreme Court of Pakistan highlights the interesting case of the payment of a hefty pension to the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Supreme Appellate Court’s chief judge and two other judges, who are appointed on contract for only three years. A former judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, who had also served as chief judge of GB’s apex court, became entitled to two pensions. It is said tha