Fawad Hopes PML-N, PPP To Review 18th Amend, NFC Award.

ISLAMABAD -- Former information minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Fawad Chaudhry has hoped that both Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) would strive to partially review the 18th constitutional amendment and NFC Award in the light of the suggestions given by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail.

In a tweet on Saturday, Chaudhry said that Miftah has been criticising the NFC Award and the formula regarding division of national resources between the Centre and the provinces under the 18th amendment of the Constitution and added; 'Now the PPP has also agreed to this point'. He hoped that PML-N and PPP would also take practical steps to implement the suggestion.

Miftah Ismail, back in 2018, had described the NFC Award formula a structural problem and imperfect. In his opinion, the formula gives...

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