Islamabad, January 27
Despite facing severe foreign exchange shortage and being under economic crisis, the government of Pakistan has ordered a massive hike of 30 percent in development funds to PKR 90 billion for Parliamentarians, according to Dawn.
The decision was made during a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Wednesday, which also authorized nearly PKR 1 billion in additional funding for the upkeep of the Supreme Court of Pakistan judges’s rest homes and residences in various cities across the nation.
