ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has announced that its government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KPK) will not present the budget for the next financial year because ‘they do not have the mandate to do so’.
The party chief Imran Khan announced the decision in a media briefing after the meeting of the central executive committee(CEC) of PTI.
Khan while expressing his views about next financial budgeting said that the federal government had no mandate to announce the budget for the whole year where only 45 days were left of their tenure.
The PTI chairman also expressed concerns over non-implementation of reforms in Fata, regretting that the government was not merging the tribal areas with KP only because of the opposition by its allies.
He also claimed that the April 29 Lahore public meeting would prove that people stood with the judiciary.
Meanwhile, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), an opposition party, has expressed its surprise over the PTI’s announcement, saying such a step would create a precarious situation in KP.
“Questions can be raised on the expenditures which would be made by the caretaker government after July 1 when the new financial year would start,” stated the party in a statement.
PPP’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Syed Naveed Qamar asserted that his party was of the view that only four-month budget should be presented in the centre and all provinces.
“We would do the same in Sindh,” he added.
