Re: Risks to economy growing.. State Bank.
Bhaijaan, do you honestly think anyone in Pakistan cares how much the minimum wage is, or follows it? The govt can make it 50,000, koi farq nahee parey ga.
meray bahi .. government is the major employer in Pakistan. Most of those employed in health sector, education sector, police, judiciary, army, banking sector, road cleaners, WAPDA (most workers in electricity generation and distribution), Railways, dock yards, steel mill, building site workers, ... etc ... well, I think that most employees in Pakistan are government employees (either employed by Federal government or provincial government). I think that government in Pakistan employees maybe 60 percent (or more) of Pakistan work force (excluding farm workers). In villages, almost all who are working work for government (exclusing farm workers).
You might say that there are limited number of people in government jobs working on minimum wage. But the thing is that, all government employees got similar rise ... around 350 percent during last 8 years, be they working at grade 1 or grade 22.