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The lack of consensus at the National Finance Commission (NFC) in evolving a new award every five years since the 7th award was announced 11 years ago is creating a problem in updating the horizontal distribution of resources required to reduce uneven regional development within and among federating units.
One such glaring issue is of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s share in the NFC Divisible Pool after the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with the province. Under the current horizontal distribution formula, KP qualifies for more resources owing to the increase in population, level of backwardness and also probably due to the sparsely populated vast territory earlier administered by Islamabad.
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader, Mohammad Zubair, on Friday held Prime Minister Imran Khan responsible for attempted rigging in Daska by-election.
Speaking at a press conference here, Mr Zubair said Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar was not “genius enough” to rig Daska by-poll and all responsibility lay on Imran Khan.
He said what happened in Daska was not less than a criminal offence. “There was no contact between 23 missing presiding officers and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for 13 hours,” the PML-N leader said.
He termed the decision of re-election in Daska as the beginning of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s ouster from power.