Soldier Fakharuddin awaits pension

KARACHI - The man who joined Pakistan Army on the very first day of independence in 1947 remains deprived of his pension for the last eight months, as the authority concerned has declared him dead in the government documents, TheNation has learnt here.Soldier Fakharuddin, 82, who started serving Pakistan Army from the first day of independence, said that he had been receiving his pension since he got retirement in 1959 but it had been blocked in April 2012 as the department concerned declared

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