EOBI pension.

Byline: Azfar Shamim - Karachi

APROPOS the clarification by the EOBI management (Feb 13). The Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, Zulfi Bukhari, had announced on Dec 12 to further increase EOBI pension by Rs 2000 making the pension Rs8,500/- per month effective January 2020. Earlier the government had increased EOBI pension from Rs 5,250 to Rs 6,500 per month. Prime Minister Imran Khan has also endorsed the Rs 2,000 increase in EOBI pension but a notification is awaited in this respect.

However, responding to the thousands of queries in this respect, the Twitter account of...