KP government to introduce performance base salary for government employees.

Peshawar -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government took the decision to convert relevant allowances part of government employees pay to a performance base, to help transform governance.

This was said by provincial Minister for Finance Taimur Saleem Jhagra in a statement issued on Wednesday.

He said that in the last budget, the cabinet reduced its salaries to show the commitment to change, before asking others to sacrifice. Similarly, the move to performance based pay will also be top down and in stages; starting with the senior most officials in government and PTI government is hoping to implement it from 1st January.

Jhagra said out of an annual salary bill of more than Rs 200 billion, Rs 100 billion goes to various allowances and salary top ups. In the last...