According to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Caretaker Chief Minister Muhammad Azam Khan, the federal government is owed Rs1,200 billion in net hydel profit under the AGN Qazi formula.

At the time of the ex-FATA merger, the chief minister added, the federating bodies agreed to give the Newly Merged Districts (NMDs) 3% of their NFC shares.
He further mentioned that it had been promised that Rs100 billion would be granted to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa year for the faster development of the NMDs, but that only Rs103 billion had been provided to the province over the course of the last five years.
At the ninth meeting of the caretaker cabinet, which took place here on Wednesday, he made these remarks.
Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry and the relevant administrative secretaries were present, in addition to the caretaker cabinet members.
The chief minister introduced the new cabinet members in his speech to the meeting attendees.
The chief minister addressed the caretaker government’s constitutional and legal role and responsibilities, saying, “As a purely apolitical and impartial set-up, the caretaker government will restrict itself to its constitutional and legal role and perform its dutiful functions in accordance with the Constitution and the Election Commission Act 2017.”
Azam Khan has stated that the caretaker government faces two big challenges: the current peace and order situation and a budgetary crunch, and that his government will prioritize addressing the first.
“The province is largely dependent on the federal government for its revenue, of which more than ninety per cent comes from various federal receipts,” Azam Khan maintained, adding that the province’s population had increased with the merger of ex-FATA, so the province’s NFC shares should rise to 19 percent of the total instead of the 14.6 percent it continued to receive.
After addressing these concerns with the outgoing federal administration, Azam Khan told his new cabinet colleagues that the caretaker finance minister had to follow up with the outgoing federal government on all of these matters.
Seven main topics were discussed at the meeting, including the approval of project revisions, the opening of a forensic science laboratory in Peshawar, the nomination of an administrative judge for anti-terrorism courts, and the resolution of issues related to the case against the teachers at Police Public School.
Additional funding for Peshawar’s forensics lab was approved at the conference, and the PC1 for the Janikhel Bannu Police Station was updated.
These actions are expected to greatly aid in the fight against terrorism and the upkeep of peace and order.
The Peshawar High Court’s Chief Justice recommended Senior Judge Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim Khan for appointment as an administrative judge for anti-terrorism tribunals, and the cabinet agreed.