Government won't be able to foot the pension bill

This is apropos a Business Recorder news item "Pension challenge: Govt won't be able to foot the bill: top MoF official" carried by the newspaper on Sunday. The report states that Secretary Finance Tariq Bajwa has said that the government will not be able to meet the expenditure on account of pension bill - presently Rs 245 billion - in coming years.
"Pension bill is becoming such a burden that government would not be able to meet the expenditure in next few years," he reportedly said in response to Senator Sirajul Haq proposal that "pension of senior citizens should be increased to 80 percent," the report adds. The government is not able to foot the pension bill; it cannot provide a huge number of people clean drinking water and sanitation; and it has promoted private education and private healthcare by virtually abandoning these key social sectors. Unfortunately, however, it is greatly annoyed by appearance of prime minister's sons before the Panama Papers JIT although Hussain Nawaz says his father believes in supremacy of rule of law.