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February 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Did you know that a mere three-year contract job as a judge in the Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court (G-B SAC) can make you a millionaire, besides entitling you to a huge monthly pension for life?
Incredibly, the chief judge of the GB apex court gets over Rs 60 million upon completion of his three-year contract in addition to over Rs one million per month as pension. The G-B SAC comprises a chief judge and two other judges. Like the chief judge, the two judges are also entitled to similar pensionary benefits.
Advocate Muhammad Ibrahim, who is a permanent resident of GB, told The News that he has recently filed a petition before the Supreme Court on the matter. He referred to the SCP’s verdict of 2008 which had entitled the judges, irrespective of their length of service, for the pension and pension-related benefits.
Karachi
February 7, 2021
Educators and academics have expressed reservations over a recently-passed bill from the Senate for making the teaching of Arabic compulsory at all the educational institutions, saying that the economic prospects of teaching Arabic are low and adding more languages to the curriculum will further deteriorate the teaching standards of mathematics and science subjects.
A few days earlier, the Senate of Pakistan passed the Compulsory Teaching of Arabic Language Bill 2020, to make Arabic a compulsory subject at all the educational institutions.
Talking to The News, a number of educators said the legislators should try to fill the loopholes of the educational system instead of overburdening the students. They opined that about 74 per cent of students from grade I to X were learning two languages Urdu and English – as compulsory subjects. Likewise, learning their mother tongue in various regions of the country was also compulsory for the students from grade
Top Story
February 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Did you know that a mere three-year contract job as a judge in the Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court (G-B SAC) can make you a millionaire, besides entitling you to a huge monthly pension for life?
Incredibly, the chief judge of the GB apex court gets over Rs 60 million upon completion of his three-year contract in addition to over Rs one million per month as pension. The G-B SAC comprises a chief judge and two other judges. Like the chief judge, the two judges are also entitled to similar pensionary benefits.
Advocate Muhammad Ibrahim, who is a permanent resident of GB, told The News that he has recently filed a petition before the Supreme Court on the matter. He referred to the SCP’s verdict of 2008 which had entitled the judges, irrespective of their length of service, for the pension and pension-related benefits.