Pakistan today claimed that the provision of Rs 61 million in the Punjab province government's budget is meant for government-run educational institutions.
Reacting to media reports from Lahore, Pakistan High Commission spokesman Manzoor Ali Memon said, "the report is speculative and based on preposterous assumptions."
"The budget provisions of the Punjab government are for government educational institutions," he said in a statement here.
According to the report, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the parent body of banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been allocated over Rs 61 million in the budget for current fiscal by the provincial government headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N.
Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million in its budget for fiscal 2013-14 for 'Markaz-e-Taiba', the largest centre of the JuD, the provincial government has allocated Rs 350 million for setting up a "Knowledge Park" at the centre and other development initiatives.
