Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has thanked Punjab Chief Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi for approving a relief of raising salaries and pensions of provincial government’s employees and pensioners at par with the employees and pensioners of the Federal Government.

In a tweet on Sunday, he congratulated Punjab government employees for a 35 percent increase in salaries and 17.5 percent in pensions.

He expressed the resolve to eliminate the darkness of economic misery, poverty, and inflation from the country.