• Muzzammil rails against 27th Amendment push, calls its timing ‘bad signal’
• Says federal ‘miscalculations’, not NFC, drove debt, interest surge
• Insists Centre’s ‘lust for money’ won’t end even if provincial shares are cut
ISLAMABAD: Dismissing the Centre’s claim of fiscal constraints necessitating a readjustment of resource sharing through the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has instead demanded accountability for the federal government’s “bad economic decisions” that have led to a huge buildup in interest payments.
Speaking at a news conference, KP’s Finance Minister Muzzammil Aslam smelled a rat behind the 27th Constitutional Amendment, which he said was being introduced at a time when the National Finance Commission (NFC) had been constituted and its meeting repeatedly scheduled a
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