ISLAMABAD: Defence-related expenditures rose by 11.3 percent in fiscal year 2019-20 with current expenditure rising to Rs 1,146.8 billion in FY 2020 against Rs 1,030.4 billion in FY 2019, the Economic Survey 2019-20 revealed.
The Survey further noted that Defence expenditures contributed 13.7 and 16.1 percent in total and current expenditures respectively, in FY2019 against 13.8 and 17.6 percent respectively during FY 2018.
Further breakup of defence related current expenditure for the first nine months of the current year reveals Rs 802.4 billion against Rs 774.7 billion in the same period of FY2019 - a rise of 3.6 percent.
However, the Survey has not provided any details of the outlay on cost of war on terror.
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