{"id":3242,"date":"2023-06-10T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2023-06-10T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T08:21:43","slug":"budget-2023-24-ishaq-dar-fails-to-fulfill-his-promise-to-end-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2023-24: Ishaq Dar fails to fulfill his promise to end interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan&#8217;s leader, Siraj-ul-Haq, expressed his disappointment on Friday, criticizing the federal budget for the year 2023-24. He stated that the repayment of loans has severely harmed the national economy, with an 85% increase in loan repayments compared to the previous year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the federal budget, he mentioned that more than 55% of the total budget of Rs. 14.46 trillion for the fiscal year 2023-24 would be spent on interest payments.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has failed to fulfill his promise of eliminating interest (usury).<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the government for neglecting the merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and FATA.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding this matter, he added that an announcement of a nominal amount has been made according to the needs of these regions.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the government has no mechanism to collect Rs. 9.2 trillion in taxes, as their target was contrary to the ground reality.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) collected approximately Rs. 500 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed concern that the government will present another mini-budget in the near future to fulfill the demands of the IMF (International Monetary Fund).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan&#8217;s leader, Siraj-ul-Haq, expressed his disappointment on Friday, criticizing the federal budget for the year 2023-24. He stated that the repayment of loans has severely harmed the national economy, with an 85% increase in loan repayments compared to the previous year. Reacting to the federal budget, he mentioned that more than 55% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"home-loop","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"0","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,47,46],"tags":[415,537,1084],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-budget","tag-jamaat-e-islami","tag-siraj-ul-haq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}