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Centre expenditure on provincial subjects

Pakistan Published 12 November 2026, 04:29 · archived 11 Nov 2026

EDITORIAL: The Senate Standing Committee on Devolution was informed that the Centre spent Rs5 trillion on 17 subjects — including education, health, environment, agriculture, labour, and industries — that were devolved to the provinces in 2010 under the 18th Constitutional Amendment. The outlay is therefore clearly violative of the constitution but, bafflingly, instead of removing lacunas that continue to persist sixteen years after the amendment was passed with consensus, notably building capacity in provinces to deal with the devolved subjects, all post-2010 administrations implemented the c...

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