‘Sindh’s budget has rosy slogans, hollow promises only’

Karachi
The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) has severely criticised the recently announced Sindh budget terming it aiming at befooling people with rosy slogans and hollow promises.
PML-Q Sindh President Haleem Adil Sheikh on Saturday said there was nothing in the budget for the poor people of the province and the lion’s share of the budgetary allocations would go into the pockets of the corrupt rulers.
“It is an open secret that the ruling class is least concerned about the plights of the poor masses.”
Sheikh said the main point was that the budgetary allocations were often spent on the other purposes than on the designated projects, adding hardly 30 percent of provision was spent on the general public.
Elaborating, the PML-Q leader maintained in the past the funds meant for education and healthcare were misappropriated. “Allocations are just a farce as in the end of the financial year it becomes known where actually the allocated funds were spent.”
Sheikh alleged that these kinds of budgets were aimed to eliminate the poor instead of eliminating poverty and added the federal and the provincial governments have only safeguarded their own interests in their budgets and it seemed that Pakistan was not only facing lawlessness and terrorism but also financial terrorism, “which is aimed at snatching the last morsel of food from the mouth of poor people.”