PSDP | Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday reviewed the proposed Rs1.51 trillion Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for fiscal year 2026–27, with an emphasis on fully utilising development funds, especially by sectors that were performing satisfactorily. According to an official from the Planning Division, it was an initial meeting on the PSDP ahead of the forthcoming federal budget, and further meetings will also be held on the matter. The PSDP will be finalised in an upcoming meeting on the Annual Development Programme (ADP). The official told Dawn that the prime minister has directed that more funds be allocated to ministries and divisions performing well, while funding for those lagging behind be reduced. According to an official press release, PM Shehbaz emphasised that public money should be invested in development projects that ensure tangible results. The premier reviewed the current fiscal year’s development budget and proposed projects under the upcoming PSDP for the next fiscal year...

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund has recommended integrating Parliamentarians’ development schemes under the Sustainable Development Goals Achievement Programme (SAP) - into the PSDP process for the purpose to stop the inclusion of politically driven projects into development portfolio without proper procedure.

Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal has said that fiscal space will be provided in the next PSDP for the projects of strategic importance envisioned under Uraan Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD - Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister (DPM/FM), Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Friday emphasized that the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) priorities must deliver tangible socio-economic benefits, particularly job creation, poverty reduction, and regional equity, aligned with the PM’s URAAN.

Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister (DPM/FM), Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Friday emphasized that the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) priorities must deliver tangible socio-economic benefits, particularly job creation, poverty reduction, and regional equity, aligned with the PM’s URAAN Pakistan vision for inclusive,.

Quetta - Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti on Monday issued strict directives to all provincial departments to ensure the timely completion of ongoing development projects under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), warning that funds allocated to slow-moving projects would be diverted to more active and.

ISLAMABAD: The government only managed to spend around 41 per cent of the development funds allocated for the fiscal year despite the passage of 10 months, the planning ministry has said. The development spending stood at Rs448.6bn in the first 10 months (July-April) of fiscal year 2025, accounting for less than 41pc of Rs1.1 trillion revised budget allocation for the whole year. The lack of spending suggests a large part of the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) — revised down from Rs1.4tr to Rs1.1tr — would remain unspent at the end of the fiscal year in June. The ministry’s monthly data released on Sunday showed funds given to parliamentarians were the only exception to the otherwise paltry spending. Finance ministry pushes back date to surrender unspent funds by a month The utilisation of funds at Rs35bn was even higher than the first revised allocation of Rs25bn for the current year. A mechanism devised by the finance ministry for the current fiscal year dictated the government should release 15p...