The Senate on Tuesday again debated over retired military officers holding key positions in the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) and other state organisations, with opposition senators demanding details of such appointments but state minister Ali Muhammad Khan equating the query to “hatred for the armed forces”.
The matter, which was previously discussed on December 29, saw Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Senator Mushtaq Ahmed complain that he had specifically asked for the number of ex-military men rehired in Nadra but was instead given a general figure saying that the Authority has 13,997 employees in total.
“I asked this question because unemployment in Pakistan has surged, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The youth are not getting employment and on the other hand, we are specifically recruiting retired personnel of the armed forces in good positions,” the senator said.
At this, PPP Senator Raza Rabbani remarked that Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid was “probably the minister in charge of answering this question”.
