Islamabad, Feb. 2 -- Nearly two months after its inaugural session amid high expectations, Pakistan's National Finance Commission (NFC) appears to have stalled, with its second meeting, initially planned for mid-January, yet to materialise, raising concerns over delays in finalising the long-pending 11th NFC award.

According to Dawn, informed sources said the commission's eight technical working groups have also made little progress, with only two holding a single meeting so far, while the remaining six have not convened at all since their notification in the second week of December.

Following the first NFC meeting on December 4, officials from the Ministry of Finance and provincial governments had announced that the next session would ...