{"id":113249,"date":"2026-05-21T00:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=113249"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:22:07","slug":"municipal-workers-criticize-provincial-government-demands-salaries-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/municipal-workers-criticize-provincial-government-demands-salaries-pension\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal workers criticize provincial government; demands salaries, pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: The United Municipal Workers Union Peshawar has strongly criticized policies of provincial government that\u00a0increased problems of local government employees, depriving them of salaries and pensions ahead of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/expected-eid-ul-azha-holidays-in-pakistan\/\">Eid-ul-Azha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president of union, Ismail Khan said the refusal of provincial Finance Department to release grant\u00a0funds to the Capital Metropolitan Government Peshawar was a clear exploitation of employees that\u00a0are already facing different financial issues.<\/p>\n<p>Union office bearers said that after facing similar issues in the past, poor employees and pensioners of the\u00a0local government Peshawar and most TMAs across the province have once again been left without salaries\u00a0before Eid-ul-Azha.<\/p>\n<p>Union representatives alleged that the Finance Department distributed fourth-quarter grants on the basis\u00a0of favoritism and failed to allocate any funds to the Capital Metropolitan Government Peshawar, resulting\u00a0in severe financial difficulties for employees and pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>They demanded that the provincial government and finance department review their policies to ensure a<\/p>\n<p>permanent solution for the timely payment of salaries to local government employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: The United Municipal Workers Union Peshawar has strongly criticized policies of provincial government that\u00a0increased problems of local government employees, depriving them of salaries and pensions ahead of\u00a0Eid-ul-Azha. The president of union, Ismail Khan said the refusal of provincial Finance Department to release grant\u00a0funds to the Capital Metropolitan Government Peshawar was a clear exploitation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":113250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[3592,42409,42410,24445],"class_list":["post-113249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-eid-ul-azha","tag-demands-salaries","tag-municipal-workersdemands-salaries","tag-pension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113311,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249\/revisions\/113311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}