Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Revenue Hammad Azhar presented the budget on June 11 in which he had declared that the budgetry allocation for the defence sector was kept the same as the last year’s. Pakistan’s parliament has unanimously passed the Rs 1,152 billion defence budget for the next fiscal (2019-20).
But the budget document showed a slight increase of 4.5 per cent by the government. According to the documents, the original allocation for defence for outgoing fiscal (2018-19) was Rs 1,100 billion but it was revised later to Rs 1,137 billion, up by 3.4 percent, by the end of the year. So, the actual rise from previous allocation was Rs 52,201 million or 4.5 per cent.
1,152 billion defence budget for next fiscal (2019-20) approved by Pakistan Parliament
