According to a news report, the Pay & Pension Commission has recommended doubling of the salaries of all officers in pay-scale 20 to 22. For employees in rest of the grades, and poor pensioners, the proposed raise is only 15 to 20%. This seems in keeping with the apparent government policy of flogging the beast of burden to the limit of endurance while powerful ruling mafia in civil and military bureaucracy gets all the plums. The starched collars of bureaucracy, both in white and khaki, have had their salaries doubled already. But the poor pensioners, ignored ever for being the weakest lot of population, are being ignored yet again. Islamabad needs to be a little more human than this. I think the pensions and emoluments of the lower grade employees should be raised by at least 50%. -MUHAMMAD JAVED, Muzaffargarh, April 28.