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1. Sometimes we need to rise above politics. Remember, the biggest challenge of govt is the cost of govt. The salaries and pensions challenge that we face across Pakistan is one that has to be solved. If we don't find a solution as a country, we will never be able to progress.
2. In many countries, public scrutiny on govt budgets is on whether govt is minimising it's own cost. Remember, everything govt doesn't spend on itself, it spends on the 99% of the population not working for govt.
3. In KP, salary and pension spend has increased by 450% over the last ten years. This is true across Pakistan, and this is why we have to control unnecessary growth in the size of govt, standing at over 500k employees in KP. We have acted boldly on this.
4. We focused new recruitment where it matters; teachers; doctors; rescue staff; people who deliver service. We changed retirement age rules (their being challenged in court has added Rs. 16 billion to this year's salary bill). And we will continue this reform journey.
5. Perhaps the biggest challenge to solve nationally is the pensions crisis.
In KP pensions spending has increased over 80x in 15 years, and without reform, will rise to 45% of the budget in less than 10 years.
It's critical provinces and federal govt work together on this.
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