The National Assembly approved seventy-seven demands for grants
worth over two trillion rupees relating to different Ministries and
Divisions of the federal government for the next financial year.
No cut motions were moved by the opposition on these demands for grants.
The demands for grants jointly moved by Finance Minister Abdul
Hafeez Sheikh and Minister of State Hina Rabbani Khar include Commerce
Division, Defence Production, Economic Affairs, Statistics, Finance
Division and its affiliated Departments, Pakistan Mint, National
Savings, Higher Education Commission, Revenue Division and its allied
departments, Planning and Development Division, Housing and Works,
Civil Works and its affiliated departments, Human Rights Division,
Industries and Production Division and its allied departments,
Information Technology and Telecommunications, Inter Provinicial
Coordination, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan, Law, Justice and
Parliamentary Affairs, Narcotics Control, National Assembly, the
Senate, Overseas Pakistanis Division, Ports and Shipping, Postal
Services and affiliated departments, privatization Division, Pakistan
Railways, Scientific and Technological Research Division, States and
Frontier Regions and Textile Industry. SANA