ISLAMABAD – Finance Minister Asad Umar rejected a summary forwarded to himby the Cabinet Division for relaxation of rules, allowing former SindhGovernor Mohammad Zubair to receive pension .
According to details, a summary was prepared to be presented before PrimeMinister Imran Khan for approval of ex-governor Zubair’s pension releaseagainst rules by relaxing the set terms and conditions for the provision.
Under the rules, a governor is only eligible to receive pension if he hasserved in the same capacity for at least two years but Zubair, who is alsobrother of the finance minister, remained in the office for just 18 monthsfrom Feb 02, 2017 to Aug 03, 2018, thus ineligible for the facility.
However, the concerned official prepared a favourable proposal citingexamples from the past in this regard when during Pervaz Musharraf andPakistan Peoples’ Party regimes a few governors were facilitated, amongthem was former Punjab governor Latif Khosa.
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The Cabinet Divison forwarded the summary through Finance Ministry where itwas put before Asad Umar for approval but he rejected the summary rightaway and sent it to the PM with his dissenting note.
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