The monitoring committee to oversee the application of austerity measures has discussed the working timings in Ramadan 2023 and decided that the new timing for office work.

The timings will be 7:30 am to 2:30 pm and up to 12:30 pm on Fridays starting from the first of Ramadan and will be followed in the summer season as per the verdict of the cabinet.

An official notification has not yet been issued yet. However, the verdict has been made by the committee.

The committee that met in Islamabad on Monday — with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in the chair — reviewed the implementation of the decisions of its first meeting on the performance of austerity measures.

The meeting was updated on the status of the use of luxury vehicles and it was described that the cabinet members have returned a majority of the allocated vehicles.