Financial Autonomy is Equally Important

Byline: Siddiq Baloch QUETTA -- The Parliament had granted greater autonomy to the provinces abolishing the Concurrent List of the Constitution transferring 17 Ministries and Divisions to the Federating Units. Seventeen Ministries and Divisions had been transferred in three phases. We have yet to see the qualified and experienced officials manning or taking over those devolved ministries in Balochistan. There was a consensus among the political parties on the issue of autonomy inside the Parliament extending their full cooperation to abolish the controversial Concurrent List retaining only two lists the Federal List and Provincial List for legislating laws in their respective domain.