PCSIR: payment of pensions

E-Paper | June 13, 2026

I REGRET with a heavy heart that pensioners of the PCSIR have been continuously suffering due to delays in the payment of pensions. Such delays have now become a routine.

AS prices of commodities go up daily, pensioners sufferer the most as they are often paid meagre pensions.

During their old age when they are weak and feeble, they require maximum health facilities but their hospitalisation facilities have also been withdrawn.

Moreover, delays in the payment of pension has become a regular feature in the PCSIR. This is because of the habitual delays in the release of budget for the ministry of science and technology. At present the pension for May and June has not been paid though it is the third week of July.

The ministry of science and technology, the chairman of the PCSIR and all other relevant and resourceful authorities of the federal government should look into the matter.

A PCSIR PENSIONER Karachi

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Mahmood A Minhas

Jul 26, 2012 03:11pm

The views of the writer need sympathitically consideration by the concerned department. This practic is almost being applied in other earning units of the federal government who always watch their own interest like promotion increase in salary and many other benfits but ignor their outgoing employees. The increase in pension as announced by the federal government have not been extended to the retirees for the last three years. The reason is best known to them. They are liberal at their own decision as there is no any authority to check and ask them to do so in our country.

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HADI SAKEY

Jul 26, 2012 03:10am

My head hangs in shame. My dad was a pensioner before Partition. He and his friends always received payment on time.No body could imagine that salary and pensions in government departments will be ever delayed during the British Raj. Even After partition the same tempo was maintained. It is only in this wretched PPP Government that salaries and pensions are not paid on due date so much so that a an aged old Pensioner of the Railways died last year while standing in the Q waiting for his pension. Punjab Police have not received salary for the last two months. Grades are announced and then they are not implemented for months together. This is bad management.

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