{"id":102624,"date":"2026-03-01T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=102624"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T13:17:43","slug":"passport-directorate-dismisses-128-employees-on-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/passport-directorate-dismisses-128-employees-on-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport Directorate dismisses 128 employees on contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hajj-2026-visa-issuance-to-begin-february-8-says-saudi-ministry\/\">Ministry of Interior<\/a> has dismissed 128 contract employees who worked at the Immigration &amp; Passport Directorate after administrative reviews, which took place recently.<\/p>\n<p>The employees who worked from grade 1 to grade 15 at the Immigration &amp; Passport Directorate were dismissed after their contracts with the Ministry were terminated.<\/p>\n<p>The officials confirmed that the Ministry of Interior intends to eliminate all senior officers who were assigned to work with Sindh from governmental positions which includes the current Director General (DG) of Immigration &amp; Passport. The ministry has not yet managed to find new senior officers to replace the current officials who serve at the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The terminations affected workers at lower grades, but sources indicate that senior officials, including the DG have maintained their employment status.<\/p>\n<p>The official extension of the DG&#8217;s deputation remains uncertain at this time. The ministry has not yet issued a formal statement regarding the DG\u2019s status, leaving employees and stakeholders seeking clarity on future administrative arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior has dismissed 128 contract employees who worked at the Immigration &amp; Passport Directorate after administrative reviews, which took place recently. The employees who worked from grade 1 to grade 15 at the Immigration &amp; Passport Directorate were dismissed after their contracts with the Ministry were terminated. The officials confirmed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36818],"class_list":["post-102624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-128-employees-dismissed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102626,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102624\/revisions\/102626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}