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US calls on Pakistan to place Defence Budgets under civilian oversight - The Statesman

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    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -2% Center

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : It recommended "disclosing detailed information on government debt obligations, including for state-owned enterprises.
52% : The government made only limited information on debt obligations, including major state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available.
49% : It added that "steps Pakistan could take to improve fiscal transparency include subjecting the military and intelligence agencies' budgets to parliamentary or civilian public oversight." On debt disclosure, the report observed that "the government made only limited information on debt obligations, including major state-owned enterprise debt, publicly available."
44% : " The 2025 review echoed concerns raised in previous reports about gaps in debt transparency and the absence of legislative oversight of defence expenditure.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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