By Ailia Zehra, Shazia Mehboob, Raza Hashmi and Abdullah Momand Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government presented its second budget last Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic which has crushed economic activity across the globe. Prior to Minister Hammad Azhar’s budget speech, Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance Hafeez Sheikh had referred to budget 2020 as the ‘corona […]
21SharesOpposition parties Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) staged a protest during the budget session at the joint session of the parliament. As soon as the announcement of the budget started the parliamentarians started to protest against what they termed as the government’s abuse of power, terming the budget ‘anti-poor’. They held […]