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Provision of drinking water, electricity, toilets and boundary walls to help combat low retention rate.

This rate is double the 2% tax collected before the budget.

Terms budget ‘ambitious, risky and fragile’, sees inflation rising and deficit widening.

Does the new government which took over in early June know what to do to revive the economy?

CM had earlier announced that the government will not increase taxation but he had backtracked on his commitment: MQM

Zardari signed the bill into law following on the advice of the Prime Minister.

The city admin apparently forgot to include the projects in their budget documents.

Report on previous year highlights broken promises, missed targets.

Dr Khan questions the govt’s optimism on many fronts, including the power crisis.

Did the P&D Dept fail to do its job or was it poor governance, PML-N member asks.