Inflation-hit government employees get 15pc bump in salary.

Acting hours before the employees were poised to stage a protest demonstration, the federal government on Wednesday acceded to increasing their salary packages of grade-1 to grade-19 employees by 15 percent, but excluded about five-dozen departments that are already availing higher than standard pay packages.

The move will marginally reduce disparity between the civil and military salaries as the government had given a similar 15...