Pakistan's finance minister has presented the new budget to lawmakers, a draft that hikes defense spending by 18% while trimming funding for development programs and offering modest tax reliefs for salaried workers

Registered businesses and workers face higher taxes, while agriculture, real estate remain difficult to tax

The defence increase followed talks with provinces over pooling fiscal space for security needs, with development plans also cut back before the Budget. | India News

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told parliament the government would allocate 3 trillion rupees for defence in the fiscal year starting July, up 18% from the outgoing year,…

Pakistan's finance minister has presented the new budget to lawmakers, a draft that hikes defense spending by 18% while trimming funding for development programs and offering…

Pakistan's finance minister has presented the new budget to lawmakers, a draft that hikes defense spending by 18% while trimming funding for development programs and offering…

Pakistan has unveiled a 17.6 per cent increase in defence spending for the 2026-27 fiscal year, allocating PKR 3,000 billion.