“not surprised” by Imran Khan’s “antics”.PM

Govt allocates funds for parliamentarians’ schemes despite financial woes,

Says taking steps for modernizing agriculture sector

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said that Imran Niazi could go to any extreme to distract attention from his culpability in the tragic events of May 9.

Islamabad_“Make no mistake about the evil intent behind Imran Niazi’s latest ploy to defame our law enforcement agencies and police. Yet again, he is making misleading and baseless allegations of the “rights abuses” just to distract attention for his culpability in the tragic events of May 9,” the prime minister said in a tweet.

The prime minister said that Imran Niazi presided over a disinformation apparatus that deployed fake news methodically to fool the people. “Everything about him is hate, division and lie,” he remarked.

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Despite economic challenges, a proposal has been made to allocate Rs89 billion in the budget for parliamentarian’s developmental schemes, ARY News reported on Thursday, quoting sources.

Sources revealed that a proposal to allocate Rs89 billion for the developmental schemes of parliamentarians has been included in the budget, While compared to the current year’s original budget, an increase of Rs19 billion has been proposed for parliamentarian projects. Sources claimed that Rs70 billion was allocated for parliamentarians’ schemes for the current fiscal year which is now increased to Rs111 billion.

Sources further mentioned that a proposal to allocate Rs99 billion for water projects in the upcoming fiscal year and Rs92 billion for National Highway Authority (NHA) has been presented for the next year’s budget. A budget of Rs55 billion has been proposed for the merged districts in the upcoming fiscal year, Rs51 billion for electricity projects, and Rs44 billion for Higher Education Commission (HEC) projects.

Moreover, a proposal to allocate Rs32 billion for railway developmental projects has been made.

These funds have been prepared from the total developmental budget of Rs700 billion.

Sources revealed that with a total volume reached at Rs900 billion for the developmental budget, a 10 per cent increase in funds will be made.

He said the government was ensuring steps for modernizing the agriculture sector to make Pakistan self-sufficient in food production. During a meeting with Minister for National Food Security Tariq Bashir Cheema here, the PM said the government ensured best support prices for the crops of sugarcane, cotton and wheat so that farmers could get good income from their hard work.
The government would allocate resources in the next budget for solarization of tubewells and provision of quality seeds and machinery, he added.