The multibillion-rupee project has seen barely five per cent physical progress despite an allocation of Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 23.845 billion in the federal budget, as reported by The Express Tribune.
Tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, holding a chainsaw to emphasise his campaign for reducing the federal budget and workforce through President Donald Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficie
CPI MP P Sandosh Kumar expressed his disappointment with the Union Budget 2024 and said that this is an anti-federal budget and Kerala did not get anything. He alleged that the budget was prepared arbitrarily to save the alliance and should be scrapped and reforms should be introduced based
The Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government unveiled a three-year economic plan, which aims to increase the share of provinces in the federal budget from 39.4 per cent to 48.7 per cent by 2027.
They urged the government to review the budget and roll back punitive measures like increasing taxes on the salaried class and allocating Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 500 billion to MNAs for development schemes in their constituencies.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Asad Qaiser and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman on Sunday showed strong opposition to the federal budget for the fiscal year 2024-25, reported ARY News.
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) faced an unprecedented backlash in the National Assembly on Friday, with even lawmakers from the treasury benches joining their opposition counterparts in lashing out at the government over the federal budget, Dawn reported.
Amid the row over the federal budget in Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari again attacked its coalition partner Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), for "not consulting" his party for budget, Geo News reported.
Bilawal complained despite that being a major ally of the government, the PPP was being "ignored" and not being taken into confidence on matters related to the federal government
The party, making a sharp attack at the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led government, termed the Finance Bill 2025 presented by it in the National Assembly as a "poisonous budget" and a "bundle of contradictions", according to Geo News.
The federal budget for Fiscal Year 2023-24, presented by Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday, came as a huge disappointment for homemakers as it offered no respite from surging household expenses, The News International reported.