Rebuttal/Clarification

Apropos a news item published in Daily Dawn on the 23rd of September, 2024 carrying the title “Govt employees get 45pc rent bump”, it is clarified that the story is entirely incorrect and misleading.
Ministry of Housing and Works has never issued any Office Memorandum in this regard. There was a fictitious and artificially generated O.M. circulating on social media on the basis of which the story has been reported. Earlier, it was clarified from the office of the Public Relations Officer at the ministry that the said document was not true.
The Estate Office under this ministry is currently conducting a survey of market rent rates of residential accommodations at six specified stations i.e., Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta that is not final yet and nothing has been notified so far.