Budget draws mixed reaction from Balochistan businesses.

QUETTA -- The federal budget for the year 2022-23 presented by Shehbaz-led coalition on Friday has drawn mixed reaction from the business community of Balochistan.

The business leaders called it a `tough budget', yet they noted that the federal government had given some relaxation to traders in sales tax returns and payment of claims.

The president of Quetta ChaA!mA!ber of Commerce and Industry, Fida Hussain Dashti and senior vice president Mohammad Ayub Mariani, while talking to the media on Saturday, said the government had tried to give some relaxation to people in different fields, but the economic crisis being faced by the country had tied its hands to provide meaningful relief.

They pointed out that the allocation for turning the national highways into dual carriage and number of scholarship for the students of Balochistan was unA!A!clear in the budget. They said that national highways in BalochA!isA!tan were in bad shape. They recalled that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had recently promised to convert the Quetta-Karachi national highway into dual...