Pakistan, June 20 -- Pakistan's federal bureaucracy is facing a silent but serious conflict over salaries. It is not merely a dispute about annual increments or routine budgetary relief. It is a deeper institutional problem in which employees working under the same Basic Pay Scale often take home vastly different salaries because of special allowances, executive allowances, judicial allowances, utility allowances, project allowances, honoraria, housing privileges and department-specific benefits. In simple words, two officers or officials may belong to the same grade, serve the same state, and face the same inflation, yet one may receive a far higher monthly package than the other.

This is now one of the most demoralising issues inside P...