{"id":11700,"date":"2025-06-26T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2025-06-26T06:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:04:20","slug":"pensioners-stage-protest-over-unpaid-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11700","title":{"rendered":"Pensioners stage protest over unpaid dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Retired employees of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and Town Municipal Corporations (TMCs) staged a protest inside the KMC building on Thursday during the corporation&#8217;s budget session, demanding the immediate resolution of long-pending financial grievances.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators called for Immediate release of pending pensions, including those for retired TMC employees; Implementation of the 2019-2020 pension increase<\/p>\n<p>Restoration of pensions for retirees aged 72 and above; Disbursement of provident fund payments; Clearance of dues for pensioners who retired or passed away since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The protest, marked by loud sloganeering, disrupted budget proceedings until Director City Warden intervened, convincing demonstrators to relocate to the building&#8217;s entrance for a peaceful sit-in.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations were subsequently held with Financial Advisor Gulzar Ali and KMC Director Welfare Mahmood Baig.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired employees of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and Town Municipal Corporations (TMCs) staged a protest inside the KMC building on Thursday during the corporation&#8217;s budget session, demanding the immediate resolution of long-pending financial grievances. The demonstrators called for Immediate release of pending pensions, including those for retired TMC employees; Implementation of the 2019-2020 pension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}