In a bid to plug long-standing leaks in its fiscal machinery, the Ministry of Finance is scrambling to finalise a comprehensive set of proposals aimed at overhauling Pakistan’s budget-implementation system, with plans to present the reforms to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by next month, highly placed officials told The Express Tribune .

The reform package—built around 15 proposals—has been under intense discussion between Pakistani authorities and an IMF technical team. At the heart of the plan is a push to fully digitise the Public Finance Management (PFM) system, a move that officials believe could end chronic inconsistencies that have long plagued budget execution.

To steer this transformation, the government is considering the formation of a specialised committee tasked so

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