MULTAN: The FBR Employees Welfare Union (All Pakistan) has outrightly rejected the Federal Budget 2025–26, labeling it an “IMF-dictated and anti-government employees budget.” The decision came during an emergency meeting chaired by Union’s Central Chairman, Tahir Khakwani, which was attended by central leadership including President Qari Nasir Awan, General Secretary Malik Zafar Iqbal Joiya, Senior Vice Chairman Malik Irfan Shahid, Vice Chairman Khaleel Ishaq, and other office-bearers.
In a strongly worded resolution, the union denounced the government’s failure to incorporate any of the suggestions or recommendations made by employees’ unions across federal departments. Despite repeated assurances, the government has turned a deaf ear to our demands, particularly concerning performance allowance, which has been completely ignored, said Khakwani.
The union criticized the nominal 10% salary increase for federal employees, calling it “insufficient and insulting” in the face of record-breaking inflation. This increase is symbolic at best and fails to ease the financial burden on employees struggling with rising costs of living, the resolution stated.
The leadership further announced that a Central Executive Committee meeting will soon be convened to determine a future course of action. This budget is a blatant betrayal of public servants. All input from unions like FBR Employees Union and AGPR-based associations was discarded, and instead, a fiscal agenda aligned with IMF’s priorities was imposed, they claimed.
Union leaders vowed to mobilize employees across the country to protest what they described as a “budget that tramples the aspirations and sacrifices of federal employees.
