All set: MQM to unveil shadow budget

Budget would provide an opportunity to masses for counter-checking and comparative analysis of statistics

ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is likely to present a shadow budget on Sunday, ahead of the federal budget prepared by the government for the fiscal year 2012-13. In contradiction to a set tradition in developed countries, the proposed shadow budget will not focus on exposing the shortcomings, mismanagement, hollow slogans, unfulfilling commitments and false promises, but it would provide an opportunity to masses for counter-checking and comparative analysis of statistics and figures laid down budget to be presented by the federal government for next fiscal year, said an MQM official.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 26^th, 2012.