The meeting of the 11th NFC Award will be held today (Thursday). The Ministry of Finance has invited all four provinces to attend the meeting.
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb will head the introductory meeting. According to the report, the IMF representatives will also join the meeting.
Officials from the Ministry of Finance confirm that the finance ministers of four provinces will also attend the huddle. The Ministry of Finance also said that the members of the Technocrat commission, comprising on Nasir Mahmood Khosa from Punjab and Asad Saeed from Sindh, will join the meeting as well.
At the same time, Mahfuz Khan from Balochistan and Musharraf Rasool from KP will participate in the meeting. All NFC award members have been instructed to join the meeting as well.
Sources said the agenda includes recommendations for the award, a review of sub-group formation, and the preparation of an action plan for upcoming meetings.
They added that the Federal Secretary of the Finance Commission will serve as the official expert during the session.
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari criticised the federal government, saying that the centre wanted control over provincial education and population welfare rights.
Bilawal Bhutto said while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the new Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) unit in Karachi, “There are talks that Islamabad wants to keep the rights of education and population welfare to itself. It will be wrong.”
The PPP Chairman said while praising healthcare facilities in Sindh that a noticeable change can be witnessed in the hospital standards before and after the 18th Constitutional Amendment, which was approved in the PPP’s tenure in 2010.
He stated that the 18th Amendment played an important role in shifting the key powers from the centre to the provinces, and the PPP leader promised to protect these provincial rights.
