June 12, 2013: I appeared on Capital TV with Javed Iqbal along with the PPPP’s Tanveer Ashraf Kaira to discuss the first budget released by the newly elected PML-N administration of then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Minister of Finance Ishaq Dar had presented the finance bill in the national assembly on June 12th, just five days after Mr. Sharif had been sworn in as Prime Minister. The crux of my analysis was that this budget did not tell us much about what the third Sharif administration would look like over it’s full term.