Repeated e-Office glitches disrupt Finance Ministry before IMF visit
“A fresh e-Office outage disrupted Finance Ministry operations just ahead of the IMF’s review visit.”
Key points
- A fresh e-Office outage disrupted Finance Ministry operations just ahead of the IMF’s review visit.
- The Finance Division flagged repeated system failures to NITB, which says maintenance and upgrades are underway to improve stability and capacity.
Work at Pakistan’s Ministry of Finance was disrupted after the government’s e-Office system developed technical faults, days before an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation is expected to begin an economic review.
Officials said the Finance Division wrote to the National Information Technology Board (NITB) on February 19, flagging serious failures that slowed routine operations and stalled the movement of official files. Staff reported recurring login issues, workflow errors, and system freezes that prevented files from progressing through approval stages.
NITB acknowledged the disruption and said the platform was undergoing maintenance and optimization amid heavier traffic as more departments come online. Officials indicated that system restoration steps were taken, with further capacity checks planned to assess stability.
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