ISLAMABAD
\nChairman Public Accounts Committee Noor Alam Khan said on Wednesday tax was collected in Pakistan but no facilities were provided against it. His statement comes in the wake of the mini-budget presented by Finance Minister (FM) Ishaq Dar. When Dar presented the budget in National Assembly, he said Mr Dar appeared in the parliament only to increase inflation. \u201cIt has been going on since I came to the assembly in 2008\u201d, he added. He never saw the common man, he said, making progress but only two persons benefitted from the budget; an ex-FM who had opened his bank and the incumbent FM, who did not even know the price of a bag of wheat flour. He said Mr Dar might not be cognizant of the sugar\u2019s price too. \u201cA bag of urea cost Rs2600 during Imran Khan\u2019s rule but now it costs Rs3300, and a DAP bag\u2019s price is Rs13000\u201d, he added. Mr Dar imposed taxes of Rs170 billion, he said, and what a common man would do in these circumstances.
\nKhan said no electricity was available but its price was being increased. \u201cThe poor suffer the heat but officers reside in cool rooms\u201d, he added. Those who were living in a 300-kanal house, he said, must be arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Chairman Public Accounts Committee Noor Alam Khan said on Wednesday tax was collected in Pakistan but no facilities were provided against it. His statement comes in the wake of the mini-budget presented by Finance Minister (FM) Ishaq Dar. When Dar presented the budget in National Assembly, he said Mr Dar appeared in the parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n