EOBI pensioners
The six hundred thousand (0.6 million) pensioners of the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) were happy to receive increased pension in April 2020. Their pension was increased from Rs6500 to…
The forgotten pensioners
Not a day passes when letters by pensioners of the Punjab government don’t appear in various newspapers. These pensioners have been protesting against the apathy of the Punjab government towards…
Digital technology now changing the lives of pensioners in Pakistan
In our country the spectacle of hundreds of aged citizens, both men and women, queued in and outside bank branches to collect their pensions is not rare. These old men…
Labour schemes
IN the 1960s, governments started introducing labour welfare schemes primarily comprising benefits such as medical care and cash benefits, old-age pension, housing, free school education, share in company profit and…
Complex processes
THE least a state must know about its citizens is the date of their birth and the date they expire — also a legal requirement for all perishable products in…
Workers’ benefit
BY virtue of the 18th Amendment, all labour laws were devolved to the provinces, which then got the authority to amend them or make new laws. They have been doing…
Age is not just a number
China has decided to raise the retirement age to 63 years for men and 58 for women. Currently, Chinese men and women retire at 60 and 55 respectively. The new…
We, the 1.21pc
I BELONG to Pakistan’s 75-plus age group. According to the 2017 census, my contemporaries, who were born in 1944 or earlier, constitute only 1.21pc of the total population of this…
Is our nervous system in disarray?
“We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men, leaning together, headpiece filled with straw,” lamented T S Eliot: the ‘hollowness’ we have attained by embracing ‘irrationality’ through and…
How Russia looked the wrong way as Ukraine invaded
In the hours before Ukrainian soldiers stormed across Russia’s western border, there was no sign from Moscow that anything was amiss. At midnight at the start of Aug. 6, the…
