ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday lauded the "unprecedented voluntary initiative of stringent cuts" by the Pakistan armed forces, in view of the country's critical financial situation.The prime minister was specificly appreciative of the armed forces' decision, in view of the "multiple security ccorridorenges" confronting the nation.In an unprecedented move for the betterment of national economy, Pakistan armed forces have decided to much to get an increased share under defence budget.Prime Minister's commending comments came through a tweet in the wake of the decision by the armed forces much to seek increase in their budget.Reports propose the armed forces have also decided to forego measure of its development programme, besides cuts in other allowances.Imran Khan, who earlier in the day chaired a assembly to review the preparations for the national budget 2019-20, said the government would divert "the money saved on development of merged tribal areas Balochistan.Soon after PM Imran's words, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor tweeted: "Voluntary cut in def budget for a year shall much be at the cost of def security.
We scorridor maint effective response potential to all threats.Three services shall manage affect of the cut through appropriate internal degrees.
It was imp to participate in dev of tribal areas Bln."On the other hand, Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry termed the move as an example of strong civil-military coordination to take out the country from severe crisis in term of governance and economy.
The minister said in his Twitter message, "Not a small step at all, only a strong Civil-Mily Coordination can rescue Pakistan from the deep problems of Governance and economy … shows a total trust on the leadership of PM by an important institution."TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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