Budget 2027 & challenges

This is a five-part analysis of Pakistan’s Budget 2027 by Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq. It covers debt and lost sovereignty, the IMF and the petroleum levy, fiscal federalism, export sovereignty and constitutional distractions amid economic collapse.

1. Budget 2027 & challenges-I — Debtocracy & Pakistan’s lost sovereignty
2. Budget 2027 & challenges-II — IMF, petroleum levy & constitutional theft
3. Budget 2027 & challenges-III — Death of fiscal federalism under IMF tutelage
4. Budget 2027 & challenges-IV — Export sovereignty through ‘PQNK’
5. Budget 2027 & challenges-V — Constitutional distractions amid economic collapse

Related analysis

• Tax Proposals Budget 2027-I — the start of the companion Tax Proposals Budget 2027 I–XII series.
• Revisiting Pakistan’s fiscal federalism — a further analysis of fiscal federalism in Pakistan.