More important, it is owned by the finance leadership and backed up by the highest political level. The freezing of the defence budget at the current year’s level signals support of the establishment for this national endeavour. Without its transformation, the political will, the proverbial same page and the chairman’s homework will all come to naught. Fresh recruitment in income tax and the customs groups of the CSS should stop and the groups should be abolished. But it requires greater political will than the 5.5 trillion target.

Source: The Express Tribune June 14, 2019 05:03 UTC