PTI's Ali Zafar Rejects Pakistan's 2026-27 Budget

PTI’s Ali Zafar rejects budget, says it achieves neither growth nor public welfare

ISLAMABAD: PTI’s parliamentary leader in the Senate, Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, rejected the budget for 2026-27 as a document that achieves neither public welfare nor long-term growth, calling it a “budget of broken promises” built on “eleven deadly sins”. Speaking during the Senate debate on Tuesday, Zafar said every budget must have two objectives: trickle-down benefits for the poor and a credible strategy for economic growth and job creation. “Unfortunately, this budget fails to achieve eit...

By [email protected] (Iftikhar A. Khan)