ISLAMABAD: Pandemonium greeted Pakistan's first post-military rule budget in the eight-month-old parliament yesterday, as opposition MPs stood on tables and tried to drown out its delivery with furious chants against President Pervez Musharraf.
Choruses of Go Musharraf Go! and No LFO (constitutional amendments) filled the chamber as Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, refusing to be distracted, read out the 2003-2004 budget.
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