Public money, meant to build roads, schools, hospitals and livelihoods, is once again sitting idle. The latest data on the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) has revealed that funds allocated with political fanfare were spent with bureaucratic lethargy and selective urgency.

In the first nine months of the current fiscal year, barely 41.5 per cent of the Rs1 trillion PSDP allocation was utilised. Even after a downward revision to Rs910 billion, spending rose only marginally to 45.6 per cent - far below the........

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