Rs0.5m and up: What salaries and perks are parliamentarians asking for?

<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1.28571rem; line-height: 1.65; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="Rs0.5m and up: What salaries and perks are parliamentarians asking for?" height="384" src="http://i.dawn.com/medium/2016/05/573dc2719ae6a.jpg" width="640" />ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians on Thursday proposed an exponential increase in salaries and perks 'commensurate with their status', bringing their wages to par with those of BS-22 officers, with a monthly allowance of at least Rs470,000.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 1.28571rem; line-height: 1.65; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> The set of recommendations presented in the National Assembly (NA) by Acting Chairman of the Standing Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges Chaudhry Mehmood Bashir Virk was unanimously adopted as a motion by parliamentarians.</div>

Rs0.5m and up: What salaries and perks are parliamentarians asking for?

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians on Thursday proposed an exponential increase in salaries and perks 'commensurate with their status', br...

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