Islamabad, Feb 11 (PTI) Pakistan parliamentarians on Tuesday passed a bill, more than doubling their remunerations from PKR 218,000 to PKR 519,000 (INR 1.62 lakh approximately).

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Romina Khurshid Alam tabled the Members of Parliament Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Bill 2025 in the National Assembly, which passed it by majority.

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It would raise parliamentarians' salaries by a staggering 138 per cent, aligning them with the pay of federal secretaries.

Already approved by the Senate, the upper house, the bill now awaits the president's signature.

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Earlier, the National Assembly's finance committee gave the bill a go-ahead in a meeting chaired by National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on January 26.

Interestingly, neither opposition lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf nor any treasury lawmaker raised any objection to the whopping increase in their salaries when the country is passing through a critical economic phase.

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