{"id":3298,"date":"2026-06-14T08:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:06:54","slug":"pakistan-kisan-ittehad-gives-ultimatum-to-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Kisan Ittehad gives ultimatum to government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LAHORE: The Pakistan Kisan Ittehad has rejected the federal budget 2026-27 and given the government a deadline of 30 June 2026, and warned of nationwide protests if subsidies on fertilizer and diesel are not announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, the chairman of Pakistan Kisan Ittehad, Khalid Hussain Bath, strongly criticised the budget 2026-27, and alleged that the finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb did not even mention farmers or agriculture in his budget speech, which he called \u201cdeeply regrettable\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that ignoring agriculture also means ignoring the country\u2019s broader economic development, and that not talking about farmers in the budget speech was highly deplorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chairman Kisan Ittehad, while talking about farmers\u2019 expectations from the budget 2026-27, said that farmers had expected relief in at least five key agricultural inputs, but no support was announced for fertiliser, pesticides, seeds, diesel, or electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He warned that farmers were still committed to supporting national development, but for this, the government should provide facilitation instead of crushing their backbone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khalid Hussain Bath further cautioned that if no formal announcement of relief and subsidies was made by 30 June 2026, farmers would launch a countrywide protest movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He claimed the current budget had left the sector abandoned, which is totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan Kisan Ittehad has rejected the federal budget 2026-27 and given the government a deadline of 30 June 2026, and warned of nationwide..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-6-1.jpg",821,396,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-6-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-6-1-300x145.jpg",300,145,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-6-1-768x370.jpg",768,370,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-6-1.jpg",821,396,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-6-1.jpg",821,396,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-6-1.jpg",821,396,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}