As Miftah Ismail, now Finance Minister, unveils the 2018-19 federal budget, which will be the last of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) governing government, it's high time to try to uncover the hidden story behind the Numbers. The idea is to enable the reader to: (a) Understand the main issues involved in formulating the budget; (b) fierce competition between different sectors competing for scarce resources; (c) read between the lines because the government hides its inefficiency mostly by jarring, if not fiddling with numbers; (d) assess government revenue and expenditure over the past five years to identify which sectors have been favored during this period; and (e) perform a basic household analysis.
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