
Austerity Claims Collapse Under Rs3.7 Trillion Spending Blowout
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb walked into parliament this week carrying a bill that exposes the widest gap yet between the government’s austerity rhetoric and its actual spending behaviour, Rs3.684 trillion in supplementary grants seeking post-facto legislative approval for expenditures already made without parliamentary sanction. The figure dwarfs the Rs895 billion parliament regularised last year, ... Read more
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