Acting President Senator Nayyar Hussain Bukhari Wednesday summoned the budget session of the National Assembly on June 1.
The upcoming budget 2012-13 will be the fifth and last budget of the PPP and its allies which will be presented by Finance Minister Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh.
The Spokesman of the NA Secretariat said the session has been summoned according to the article 54 clause 1 of the constitution.
Sources said the Finance Minister would deliver the budget speech on June 1, and then the session will be suspended for two days. On June 4 formal debate on budget session would be started including on cut motions presented by various parties.
Sources said it is expected that budget 2012-13 would be approved on June 22.