Contentions over budget persist in PA
Opposition questions irrigation, education and Covid expenditures in current fiscal year
Sindh Assembly Session. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
Contentions between the opposition and treasury benches on budget expenditures for the current fiscal year continued on Thursday as the Sindh Assembly prepared to wind up debate on the issue today (Friday).
For the opposition lawmakers, the budget has been merely a jugglery of figures. But the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party lawmakers insist that it was an exemplary budget under which record development took place in almost all sectors of government.
The former continued to grill provincial ministers on the performance of their respective departments. The education and irrigation departments and the Covid-19 expenditures came under scrutiny in the house.
Asad Umar claims Sindh CM doesn’t own Karachi
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February 1, 2021
KARACHI: Federal Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar has claimed that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah doesn’t own Karachi as, according to him, the present status of the local government system in Sindh also corroborates this assertion.
The federal planning and development minister made the claim to this effect on Sunday as he addressed a ceremony to inaugurate the central office of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Shah Faisal Colony pertaining to the constituencies NA-239 and PS-98.
Asad Umar further claimed on the occasion that the existing local government system in Karachi didn’t match the spirit of the Constitution of Pakistan. He said the local governments should possess all the powers related to municipal governance but the case of Karachi was different. He said the Sindh CM and relevant provincial ministers verbally agreed to fulfill the demand to devolve powers to the loca