Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Senator Sherry Rehman has confirmed on Tuesday that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will oppose the The Chairman Senate (Salaries, Allowance and Privileges) Act, 2023 in the National Assembly.
“Decision taken by PPP leadership to oppose it. So it will be blocked in NA etc,” she wrote in a tweet.
The bill is being widely criticized for aiming to give special perks and privileges to current chairman and ex-chairman of the Upper House.
Here are some of the privileges listed on the bill:
-Every chairman of the Senate after completing his tenure (post-retirement) will have 12 employees for life, along with six permanent guards and VVIP security wherever he goes.
-He can request an airplane for himself and his family for domestic and international travel.
-He will get additional benefits, not mentioned in the bill, or whatever he desires from the finance committee, which he handpicks.
-Every person who has held the office of Chairman for a full term of three years, shall be entitled for life to full security detail, that is to say, six sentries at the declared residence, four personnel of police, anti-terrorism force, rangers, frontier corps or frontier constabulary in one squad vehicle, for which the federal government in Islamabad, or a provincial government in the respective province, shall make the required arrangements.
-The Finance Committee of the Senate may grant the chairman and the person who has held such office for a full term of three years, such additional privileges as it may deem fit
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