President to travel in 1st class, PM, services chiefs in business class

• Austerity measures introduced to cut cost on foreign trips
• Cabinet members except foreign and commerce ministers restricted to three annual visits, exemptions apply
• MNAs, senior bureaucrats allowed business class

ISLAMABAD: The cash-strapped federal government on Monday issued a travel advisory for the president, prime minister, chief justice, services chiefs, and bureaucrats among others binding them to fly in certain classes to cut costs.

In a notification, the Cabinet Division said the president and the CJP will travel in ‘class-1’, whereas the PM, Senate chairman, National Assembly speaker, ministers, services chiefs, MNAs, federal secretaries, grade-22 officers and ambassadors will travel in business class.

Other officers of the federal government, attached departments, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies, corporations and other institutions under the administrative control of various ministries/divisions will travel in economy class.

According to the…