Budget 2025 26
The budget presents a paradox: ambitious rhetoric of relief overshadowed by structural constraints.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 10:38am
FY26 could see more Pakistanis fall below the poverty line.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 09:34am
The budget presented last week offers little hope for meaningful relief.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 09:16am
No sense of urgency on the provincial government’s part to identify or tackle the deep structural flaws.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 01:32pm
KP budget focuses on fiscal consolidation, infrastructure development, and provincial tax income growth.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 01:32pm
What happens when you put accountants and commercial bankers in charge of the finance ministry instead of trained economists?
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 01:32pm
The missed tax and GDP goals draw confusion and questions to the FY26 fiscal aspiration of a 3.9pc growth in GDP.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 01:33pm
Military conflict between Iran and Israel is bad news for Pakistan’s growth push.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 01:33pm
Current reduced sales tax rate to continue to apply to HEVs mentioned in Schedule 8 and Serial No 73.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 10:54am
Dawn.com collected data to answer some of the more pertinent questions surrounding the budget.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 10:20am
More than Rs160bn is expected to go to the education sector, over Rs100bn to law and order, and around Rs80bn to health services.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 09:39am
FBR chairman says online businesses already collect tax from consumers but don’t deposit it with the FBR.
Updated 16 Jun, 2025 08:57am
Funding cuts at the ministry mean less resources for "projectisation" of donor funding available to the country.
Updated 17 Jun, 2025 10:39am
Relief was hardly given to those who deserve it most.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 09:57am
Term the 10 per cent increase in salaries of government employees a mere joke.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 11:50am
Union reps say will go on strike if demands not met by Monday.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 12:32pm
CM Murad says plan to manage Sindh’s projects from Islamabad will not work.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 11:20am
Decision to further harm the already poor investment climate, says Pakistan Business Council.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 10:10am
Chief minister opposes Centre’s 18pc general sales tax on solar panels.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 10:05am
For third year, no new mega project announced for the country’s economic hub.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 09:58am
Notes for the first time in history, over 90pc of funds under PSDP were utilised in Balochistan.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 01:41pm
Lawmakers warn misuse to hurt businesses, turn country into police state; FBR chief says tampered vehicles to be seized, destroyed.
Updated 15 Jun, 2025 09:39am
Threatens to hamper tax collection by Centre in ex-Fata, ex-Pata.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 01:11pm
There is ample room to introduce more democratic provisions in the budget processes.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 10:09am
MQM-P's Ali Khurshidi says Murad "retracted his own words" on accepting opposition's budget proposals.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 12:26pm
Prisons to get Rs9.9bn; new police unit established for highway security.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 12:19pm
Rs100m allocated for K-IV water project; S-III sewerage plan gets Rs450m; Over Rs8bn kept for 9 ongoing projects, unlike Rs1.4bn last year.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 01:57pm
CM notes almost 25pc increase in development spending from current year’s revised estimates.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 01:44pm
This amount is approximately 32pc, or Rs131bn, higher than the current year’s Rs416bn.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 01:41pm
Estimated to increase by about Re1 and Rs5 per litre, respectively.
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 02:00pm
