Pakistan's Punjab Assembly (the legislative body of the country's most populous province) reversed course on Tuesday, restoring agricultural income tax rate increases it had declared "illegal and void" just one day earlier. The assembly unanimously approved a motion to overlook procedural delays in the notifications' prior presentation, with Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan clarifying that an ambiguity over authority — created when the government issued a statutory regulatory order while a parliamentary committee was still deliberating — had prompted his original ruling. The rapid about-face is significant as it highlights tensions between executive and legislative power over taxation authority in Pakistan, where the government had initially been accused of raising agricultural income tax rates without proper parliamentary approval.