National Assembly to vote on FY22 budget

The National Assembly session is currently under way where lawmakers are gathered to vote on the government’s budget for the new fiscal year.

Prime Minister Imran Khan is present for today’s session, while former president Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari are also in attendance.

Earlier, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin had lashed out at the opposition for its criticism of the government. He said that only food inflation had increased during the PTI government’s tenure and had attributed this to the policies of past governments.

He said that the government was focusing on the agriculture sector which had been ignored in the past. “We are taking direct action, something that has never been done before,” he thundered, adding that the government was forced to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) due to the fiscal deficit it inherited when it came into power.