KP Meeting passes invoice elevating perks, privileges of ministers

An inside view of a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly session in Peshawar on February 28, 2024. — PPI
An inside view of a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Meeting session in Peshawar on February 28, 2024. — PPI
  • Ministers to get Rs1m for home supplied to them by govt. 
  • Ministers who stay in personal home to get Rs200,000 lease.
  • Invoice additionally permits ministers to purchase carpets, curtains and so forth. 

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Meeting on Monday handed a invoice offered by Legislation Minister Aftab Alam Afridi to extend the privileges of provincial ministers.

In keeping with the newly handed invoice, KP ministers will get Rs1 million for renovating the home supplied to them by the federal government. The invoice additionally permits provincial ministers to purchase carpets, curtains, air conditioners and fridges for his or her homes. 

Furthermore, if the provincial ministers stay in a personal home, they’ll get Rs200,000 month-to-month lease, in keeping with the invoice. 

The KP Meeting had moved the invoice in October, in search of a rise in financial advantages for cupboard members. 

The modification had drawn criticism from the opposition, which stated it belied the oft-repeated claims made by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders. 

“How they [PTI lawmakers] will face their very own occasion staff. The place is the PTI manifesto?” requested opposition chief Dr Ibadullah Khan, who’s from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

Flaying the PTI authorities for the invoice, he suggested the occasion legislators first to attempt to convey their chief — Imran Khan — out of jail as a substitute of securing extra perks and privileges for themselves. 

Dr Khan, who has been elected from Shangla district and is the youthful brother of Federal Minister Amir Muqam, stated the PTI authorities had contradictory insurance policies. 

“The provincial authorities on the one hand cries over the monetary crunch whereas then again is looting the exchequer,” he stated whereas coming down exhausting on the federal government for growing the home lease for ministers from Rs70,000 to Rs200,000.