The inaugural meeting of the 11th National Finance Commission is being held in Islamabad today (Thursday) as negotiations for the sharing of federal divisible resources between the Centre and the provinces formally begin. State broadcaster PTV shared images from the meeting on social media platform X, which showed Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, who is chairing the meeting, greeting Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi. It said that the meeting was being held at the Finance Division. The meeting will take up three agenda items.
The four provincial finance ministers and four non-statutory members — Dr Asad Sayeed (Sindh), Mehfooz Ali Khan (Balochistan), Nasir Mehmood Khosa (Punjab) and Dr Musharraf Rasool Cyan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) — are members of the NFC. The 11th NFC was constituted on August 22 to give a new award for sharing federal divisible resources between the Centre and the provinces. Its first meeting, initially called for August 27, was postponed repeatedly.