Opposition to protest during NA, Senate budget sessions today

Opposition parties will lodge a strong protest inside the Parliament House during the presentation of the federal budget, which will be presented on Friday afternoon.

Major political parties including Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will protest against the budget that will be presented in the Senate session. The opposition  parties are against the ruling government passing the budget for the whole year, as it will complete its tenure on May 31.

Federal budget 2018-19 to be presented today

The parties say that the government should only present the budget for the next quarter, as the next government will take over after the elections that will be held in the last week of July.

The current chief ministers of Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa walked out in protest at the previous National Economic Council meeting.

Senator Sherry Rehman took to Twitter and said a government that got selected for five years is insisting on presenting a sixth budget. "Today a lame duck government will present a lame duck budget," she wrote.

Today a lame duck Govt will present a lame duck https://t.co/DXixSXoS2P Govt elected for 5 years insists on presenting a sixth budget.Despite Constitutional provisions for presenting an interim budget, unlike Sindh, federal Govt is trying to lock in Pak to its disastrous record

— SenatorSherryRehman (@sherryrehman) April 27, 2018