Provinces under fire

THE liquidation of the KP Assembly is an event rooted in economic, more specifically fiscal, constraints. For the time being, it is unlikely that the trajectory will continue to the other provinces, but it is worth keeping an eye on the resource envelope available to the state as the primary fount of this event. Here is how it works. Every time the state is faced with a major demand for resources, usually for security-related matters, financial managers point to the NFC Award as the reason why that demand cannot be met. In the middle of the 2010s, for example, the then PML-N government faced…