{"id":44856,"date":"2018-01-16T23:55:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44856"},"modified":"2018-01-16T23:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T18:55:32","slug":"govt-has-no-control-over-employment-matters-of-private-banks-na-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44856","title":{"rendered":"Govt has no control over employment matters of private banks: NA told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Jan. 16 (TNS):<\/strong> Minister of State for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal says the government has no control over employment matters of private banks.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to a calling attention notice moved by Sheikh Salahuddin and others regarding termination of services of employees of Habib Bank Limited by giving them pre-mature retirement without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of State said that one hundred and forty four HBL staff members who served the bank for over 25 years have been terminated.<\/p>\n<p>He said as per policy, the bank can give some additional benefits and terminate their services on completion of their 25 years of service.<\/p>\n<p>Rana Muhammad Afzal said the bank has taken this decision in the interest of automation and other technical requirements that these employees did not meet.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a calling attention notice Minister of State for Communications Muhammad Junaid Anwaar Chaudhary told the house that Prime Minister Shahid Khan Abbasi has sought a report from the National Highway Authority for repair and upgradation of various roads in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of State said these roads do not fall in the purview of NHA but even then the Prime Minister has sought report from the chairman NHA for a detailed survey of these roads.<\/p>\n<p>He assured the house that repair and upgradation of these roads will be started as soon as the prime minister gives his nod and allocates required funds for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The House was adjourned due to lack of quorum to meet again tomorrow morning at ten thirty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Jan. 16 (TNS): Minister of State for Finance Rana Muhammad Afzal says the government has no control over employment matters of private banks. He was responding to a calling attention notice moved by Sheikh Salahuddin and others regarding termination of services of employees of Habib Bank Limited by giving them pre-mature retirement without their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589,2251],"class_list":["post-44856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national","tag-rana-muhammad-afzal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44857,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44856\/revisions\/44857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}