ISLAMABAD: The parliamentarians’ dream of getting a 300 percent pay raise has shattered, as Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has refused to accept this demand of the elected representatives and told them that they would get only 10 percent raise like all government employees. Parliamentary sources told Daily Times on Tuesday that Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani opposed the motion for an exorbitant increase in the salaries of the parliamentarians, chairman and deputy chairman of the Senate and speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly. Four standing committees of the Senate and National Assembly had unanimously passed the motion for a 300 percent increase in the salaries of the parliamentarians. “We did not include the motion in the finance bill, so there would be no increase in the salaries of the parliamentarians. The finance minister was not in the favor of it,” the sources said. According to the statistics, every member of the parliament gets Rs 79,534 per month as salary. The basic pay of a member of the parliament is Rs 36,423 per month and he/she gets Rs 5,000 as special pay, Rs 5,476 as 10 percent ad hoc allowance announced in 2013-14, Rs 11,909 as 50 percent ad hoc relief announced in 2010 and Rs 2,732 as 7.5 percent ad hoc relief announced in 2015-16. In addition, every member of the parliament is entitled to Rs 8,000 office maintenance allowance and Rs 10,000 telephone allowance. Sources said that now the members of the parliament would get only 10 percent increase in their salary because both the finance minister and the prime minister were not in favour of such an exorbitant increase in their salaries. The media and the public had widely criticised the move to increase parliamentarians’ salaries by 300 percent. Under the law, parliamentarians would get a pay raise on a par with government employees in every budget, hence there would be just Rs 7,000 to 8,000 increase in the basic salary of each member of the parliament. According to the budget document, the government has allocated Rs 1.89 billion for salaries and allowances of parliamentarians in the next financial year.