LAHORE: Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan Chief Senator Sirajul Haq and JI Information Secretary Amirul Azeem, have condemned the decision of the Board of Directors of the national news agency APPC to deprive the APPC pensioners of the 10 per cent raise in pensions announced in the federal budget 2014-15.
In a joint statement here, they called upon the Federal Information Minister to immediately look into the matter and ensure that the APPC pensioners were given the 10 per cent raise announced in the 2014-15 budget besides the 11 per cent raise announced in the budget for the current financial year.
The JI chief and JI Information Secretary said it was gross injustice and totally unlawful to deny the pensioners of the small raise announced in the budget.
