📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- The sub-committee of the Senate's functional committee on devolution has revealed that the federal government has spent more than 5 thousand.
- In the meeting, the committee gave a final deadline to the Prime Minister's Office to eliminate these ministries and warned that if the orde.
- In the meeting, the Office of the Auditor General of Pakistan presented the details of the expenses of the federal ministries working under.
The sub-committee of the Senate's functional committee on devolution has revealed that the federal government has spent more than 5 thousand billion rupees on the departments and ministries under the provincial jurisdiction during the last 16 years after the 18th constitutional amendment, which the committee declared to be against the constitution and directed not to release more funds to these ministries.
In the meeting, the committee gave a final deadline to the Prime Minister's Office to eliminate these ministries and warned that if the orders are not implemented, a notice can be sent to the Prime Minister's Office.
In the meeting, the Office of the Auditor General of Pakistan presented the details of the expenses of the federal ministries working under the provincial jurisdiction from 2011 to 2026.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Razmir Hussain Ghamro, said that more than 5 thousand billion rupees, that is, about 18 billion dollars, were spent on these ministries, which is more than the 15 billion dollar loan obtained from the International Monetary Fund during the same period.
The country could have been saved from IMF programs if the federal government had not followed the constitution and spent in the sectors transferred to the provinces.
