ISLAMABAD: Faculty members working under the Tenure Track System (TTS) on Thursday urged the government to revisit the salary notification issued on July 10, saying their remunerations were not increased in accordance with the recommendations of the task force.

“The directive, intended to resolve a long-standing compensation crisis, is being denounced by the academic community as a substantive departure from consensus-based reforms, threatening to reverse two decades of progress in research and institutional quality,” read a statement issued by teachers.

At the heart of the controversy is the apparent departure from the recommendations of a high-level task force, which had been endorsed by the HEC Commission and the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, the statement read.

The notified minimum salaries — Rs407,230 for professors and Rs288,020 for assistant professors — fall drastically short of the task force’s recommendations, which had proposed Rs717,952 and Rs428,573, respectively, based on the Pide (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics) salary structure, the statement added.

Published in Dawn, July 24th, 2026