KP Assembly Passes Rs1332b 2022-23 Budget.

Peshawar -- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday passed the annual budget for 2022-23 and approved all 64 demands for grants worth Rs1332 billion.

The House also passed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Bill, 2022.

A total of 59 demands for grants were approved in Friday's sitting of the assembly, while give demands from various departments had already been approved in recent days. Earlier, the treasury and opposition members held talks, prompting the opposition to withdraw their cut motions, although a few members still forwarded their suggestions while withdrawing their cut motions.

Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan lauded both the treasury and opposition members for the passage of the budget.

While criticising incumbent federal government, he said the 'imported government' failed to manage the affairs of the country. On this, Ikhtiar Wali Khan, a lawmaker of the PML-N, retaliated and shouted on the CM, leading to exchange of broadside between the CM and Ikhtiar Wali. Later, Deputy Speaker Mahmood Jan ordered Sergeant at Arm to take Ikhtiar Wali out of the assembly and his entry into the assembly was also banned for two days, ie Monday and Tuesday.

The Chief Minister also...