LAHORE: While President Asif Ali Zardari is yet to sign an ordinance on a Rs152bn mini-budget, his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has turned its guns on the caretaker government for taking what it calls an ‘unconstitutional’ step.
The caretaker set-up under the constitution cannot introduce a mini-budget and general sales tax can be levied in consultations with provincial governments and the Council of Common Interests is the forum for that, PPP’s information secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira said yesterday.
He said the mandate of the caretaker government was to assist the Election Commission in holding fair and free election, facilitate the democratic transition and run day-to-day affairs of the state. Asked if Zardari should sign the ordinance, he said: “The president is bound to sign. The responsibility lies with the caretaker government for introducing the controversial mini-budget.”
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