Islamabad Opposition members’ supplementary budget amendment was rejected by 18 votes.

Opposition’s amendments to the Finance Supplementary Bill clause were rejected by a majority. 150 votes were cast in favor of the amendments. 168 votes were cast against the amendment. The government had a majority of 18 members in the House at that time.

Opposition members, on the other hand, chanted anti-government slogans in the House.

Bitter words have been exchanged between Defense Minister Pervez Khattak and the Prime Minister at a meeting of the parliamentary party.

Before the approval of the mini-budget in the National Assembly a meeting of the parliamentary party was convened to take the members of the National Assembly into confidence.