FBR, PPO still to get autonomous body categorisation
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February 23, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The government has accomplished categorisation of all public sector departments, giving them the status of “autonomous body” except two departments i.e. the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Pakistan Post Office.
After stiff resistance from the FBR officers and other staff, the federal government has so far deferred its decision to declare the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) as an autonomous body (AB) because majority of the staff preferred to remain within the fold of public sector employees. So they opposed any move for classifying it as an autonomous body.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government on Wednesday approved the removal of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) from its already thin list of entities that it wanted to sell to stem losses but had so far failed to control the haemorrhaging
Ex-Pakistan Post Office workers protest Sindh govt’s ‘illegal land possession’
They re staging a sit-in outside Supreme Court Karachi registry SAMAA | Irfan Ul Haque - Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Irfan Ul Haque Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
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Retired employees of the Pakistan Post Office staged a protest outside the Supreme Court Karachi registry on Monday.
They claim that the Sindh government has illegally occupied their plots in PECHS with the aid of former Malir SSP Rao Anwar. They have set up Abdullah Shah Ghazi Goth on our plots which we bought with life savings, the protesters said.