Pakistan is once again moving towards a big financial crisis due to which it is possible that scenes of fighting for flour and pulses may again be seen on the streets there like before. Meanwhile, there is news that amid rising unemployment and inflation in Pakistan, the government has decided to eliminate 60 percent of the vacant posts to reduce its expenses. That means the government of Pakistan has abolished 1.5 lakh government jobs in one stroke. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has informed that the federal government has decided to cut the number of affiliated agencies by half, eliminating 150,000 jobs. Aurangzeb said that 80 departments had been consolidated into 40. He said that the Government of Pakistan has taken extensive cost cutting measures to reduce expenditure and improve performance.
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb also said that this initiative was launched by a committee constituted under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in mid-2024. The committee was to examine the expenditure of 43 ministries and their subordinate agencies. He said the federal government’s annual expenditure on these departments was Rs 900 billion. He said the six ministries that the Pakistan government had initially chosen to right-size include Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, States and Frontier Regions, IT and Telecommunications, Industries and Reproduction, National Health Service and Capital Development Authority . He said the ministries of Kashmir Affairs, Gilgit-Baltistan and the State and Frontier Region are being merged and the Capital Development Authority is being abolished. According to the minister, in the second phase, out of 60 subordinate institutes of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Commerce Division, Housing and Works and National Food Security Research, 25 institutes will be abolished, 20 will be downsized and nine will be merged. Will go. He said that in the second phase we have taken four ministries and after that five more ministries will be taken. The ministries selected for the third phase included the Federal Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Information and Broadcasting, Electricity Division, Finance Division and Ministry of National Heritage and Culture.
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The minister said that Pakistan is also planning to transfer some hospitals to provincial administrations so that the expenses of the federal government can be reduced. Let us also tell you that Pakistan’s efforts to improve its economic situation are continuously failing. Recently, the World Bank canceled a loan of $ 500 million for the clean energy program, due to which Pakistan’s cash-strapped economy is heading towards a major crisis. Let us remind you that earlier in the month of September, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had successfully obtained a package of 7 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but till now that money has been spent. Foreign exchange reserves are falling. Help from foreign countries has stopped and even our old friend China is no longer helping like before. Besides, due to increasing unemployment and brain drain, the crisis is increasing in Pakistan.
However, while Pakistan is facing a serious crisis, its rulers are enjoying completely. The public may not have enough to eat, but government ministers and officials are seen having big parties. Not only this, it has recently been revealed that more than 22 thousand bureaucrats have dual citizenship. This means that the day these bureaucrats want to leave with the goods, they will easily leave and the general public will be left to suffer. Let us tell you that in a surprising development in Pakistan, a committee of the National Assembly has been informed that more than 22,000 bureaucrats of the country have dual citizenship, which has increased concerns about national security.
-Neeraj Kumar Dubey
