Sindh’s development question

With development spending slashed by 30 per cent despite glaring infrastructure deficits and current expenditure rising by 20pc to sustain an already bloated and inefficient provincial bureaucracy, the proposed Rs3.5 trillion Sindh Budget, which projects a Rs37 billion deficit, is anything but forward-looking. The current budget reinforces the perception that the PPP has diluted many of its core values to align with the country’s prevailing power structure, making it increasingly difficult to...

By [email protected] (Afshan Subohi)