ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly has passed the Finance Bill 2020-21 here on Monday.
The lower house had passed the federal budget with a voice vote after debates and amendments.
Prime Minister Imran Khan had joined the budget session halfway.
During the voting, members of treasury benches chanted slogans in favour of the prime minister and also thumbed their desks.
On June 12, Federal Minister for Industries Hammad Azhar had presented the federal budget in the National Assembly.
Earlier criticising the budget, PML-N President and Opposition leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif had described the federal budget for 2020-21 as a prescription for destruction.
In a statement, the opposition leader had said that the latest budget would halt the remaining breaths of the economy.
Terming the budget as an anti-people, the PML-N leader said that it would bring more inflation and unemployment in the country.
The budget has been designed only to benefit the PTI’s financers and opportunists. He said that reduction in the development budget was not a good omen.
Shehbaz said that the government had earlier tried to hide its incompetency behind the PML-N and now behind the coronavirus pandemic.
He said that Balochistan had been ignored by suspending the CPEC project.
