NA continues debate on federal budget.

ISLAMABAD -- Raising strong objections over the economic policies of each other's governments, the opposition and government MNAs in Wednesday's National Assembly proceedings continued debate on federal budget 2020-21

The opposition for the third consecutive day raised the matter about not presenting pink books, which is considered an important budget document.

The government side assured to take notice on the matter repeatedly raised by the opposition members in their speeches.

The house witnessed very thin presence from both sides of aisles as the lawmakers mostly after delivering their speeches on federal budget 2020-21 left the house.

Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul, taking part in debate, criticized previous governments for doing nothing for the development of any sector. The previous government had not taken interest in forest areas of the country. This government, she claimed, has raised three lac acre forests only in KP.

'For the first time ample resources have been earmarked for the construction of water reservoirs to overcome the shortage of water,' she said , mentioning that Rs 118 billion have been allocated for communications . She said that mega projects will also be executed in Southern Punjab during the current government era. About her ministry, she said PTI's government has focused on issues related to the issue of climate change.

PML-N's Rana Sana Ullah, on his turn, said that there were no long term or short plans in the second budget of the federal...