{"id":13118,"date":"2025-07-09T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13118"},"modified":"2025-07-09T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:04:02","slug":"bonus-for-finance-officials-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13118","title":{"rendered":"Bonus for finance officials challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Khalid Ishaq has sought arguments on the maintainability of a plea challenging the legality and discriminatory nature of awarding a special honorarium to finance ministry employees for performing their duties during parliamentary budget session.<\/p>\n<p>As the proceedings commenced, Justice Ishaq asked what grievance the petitioner had if the government had announced the incentive. The petitioner&#8217;s counsel responded that the state, under the Constitution, could not play a discriminatory role, adding that preparation of the budget is the prime responsibility of the employees of the finance ministry, which they render once in a year.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, employees of other institutions work throughout the year but no such honorarium is announced for them, which is a discriminatory act, the counsel contended.<\/p>\n<p>The counsel requested the court to set aside the notification issued in this regard by declaring the decision as discriminatory and unlawful.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Khalid Ishaq has sought arguments on the maintainability of a plea challenging the legality and discriminatory nature of awarding a special honorarium to finance ministry employees for performing their duties during parliamentary budget session. As the proceedings commenced, Justice Ishaq asked what grievance the petitioner had if the government had [&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-13118","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\/13118","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=13118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}