Wither new NFC Award?
Budget in Brief, the official document explaining highlights of budget 2016-17, while stating the obvious that "presently 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) Award is in practice", says "the 8th NFC…
NFC award: a challenge
The four provinces have appointed their representatives for negotiating the eighth NFC award however there are credible reports that indicate that the seventh NFC award would be extended for another…
The much-awaited NFC Award
The much-maligned and presently operational NFC Award on the distribution arrangements of the national pool of resources between the provincial and federal governments is finally up for negotiations by a…
The much-awaited NFC Award
The federal government frequently modifies the rules of the game through tortuous revisions of legal and related definitions to suit its version of what constitutes constitutional role, mandates, distribution and…
NFC Award – a reflection of political maturity
The agreement on the distribution, both vertical and horizontal, under the seventh National Finance Commission (NFC) award is a landmark achievement that simply must not be underestimated. It is the…
Beyond the NFC Award
The National Finance Commission (NFC) will be announced by the Prime Minister in Gawadar today. Felicitations are due not only for the amicable coming to fruition of a process fraught…
The much-awaited NFC Award
It is interesting that the Rs6 billion paid to the NWFP annually as its share of profits on Tarbela (that it demands more than Rs12 billion for it is another…
Rolling back the NFC, again
Rolling back the NFC, againIT is getting boring now. Every so often the idea is floated that the government should roll back the provincial allocations under the seventh National Finance…
Making the NFC work
The recent demands from multilateral institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank to revisit the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award have ignited a fresh debate on resource distribution…
Attacking the NFC – again
The attacks on the 7th National Finance Commission Award continue relentlessly, even though all the technical arguments forwarded by apologists of centralization for reversing it have been soundly rebutted. Desperation,…
