PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP), while rejecting the provincial budget for Fiscal Year 2026-27, called it a jugglery of words and “an organized conspiracy to push the province toward destruction”.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain, ANP Provincial President, giving his reaction on the provincial budget, said that the PTI-led government had presented the budget, but it was highly unfortunate that despite remaining in power for over a decade, it is continuously misleading the people of the province instead of telling the truth, he added.
The party leader said the provincial government had claimed that it presented a deficit budget, while a sum of Rs52.8billion has been proposed in the name of the non-existent local governments.
For the first time, 1201 new projects have been included in the budget. Ironically only some thousand rupees had been earmarked for some projects while others were not going to get any money, the ANP leader alleged.
Hussain said it was not a development plan but one to appease the disgruntled members of the provincial assembly.
The ANP leader said that 4.5million children were out of schools in KP, but only Rs5billion had been proposed for the education sector while three times of the funds had been allocated for road infrastructure, which was a clear evidence of the government’s priorities as it had no interest in human development.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the ANP had completely rejected the provincial budget. He alleged that the provincial government had been pushing the KP toward economic, educational and administrative destruction.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026