Its all in the fine prints. They realized long time ago when the PMLN was in governance that the people are started to ask the questions about their lavish Budget and no auditing of the Budget. One thing which Dar did , and I think it was terrible, that he removed the payments to the pensioners of the retired armed forces from the defence budget and shove it under the different section of the national Budget . This was not really a reduction in the defence budget but plainly playing with the numbers ...
Bongi khan didn't reduce any spending on the defence budget but only stopped the yearly increase , which I am sure they would get it back one way or other , even if they have to once again split some other part of the defence Budget in the future.