{"id":18356,"date":"2025-12-24T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18356"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:01:04","slug":"punjab-chief-minister-maryam-nawaz-announces-one-salary-bonus-for-christian-employees-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=18356","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Announces One-Salary Bonus for Christian Employees on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1563\"><strong>Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has announced a one-salary bonus for Christian employees on the occasion of Christmas, aimed at sharing in the festive celebrations and acknowledging the services of the minority community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1565\" data-end=\"1789\">A Christmas ceremony was held at Alhamra Arts Council Lahore, where Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Azma Bukhari attended as the chief guest, with a large number of Christian employees participating in the event.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"2005\">Provincial Information Minister Azma Bukhari distributed gifts among Christian employees on behalf of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and also cut a Christmas cake along with them, actively joining in the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2007\" data-end=\"2261\">Speaking on the occasion, Azma Bukhari said that the government stands shoulder to shoulder with Christian brothers and sisters in their Christmas festivities. She added that minorities hold a very special place in the heart of the Punjab Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2263\" data-end=\"2527\">She further stated that Christian employees are a source of pride for the Punjab government and their services are highly commendable, adding that the Punjab government is utilizing all available resources for the protection, welfare, and well-being of minorities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2529\" data-end=\"2617\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has announced a one-salary bonus for Christian employees on the occasion of Christmas, aimed at sharing in the festive celebrations and acknowledging the services of the minority community. A Christmas ceremony was held at Alhamra Arts Council Lahore, where Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Azma Bukhari attended as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[10064,10062,4736,81,10063,911],"class_list":["post-18356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-bonus","tag-christian-employees","tag-christmas","tag-maryam-nawaz","tag-minorities","tag-punjab-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18356\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}