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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Syed Shibli Faraz while speaking in the Senate on Thursday advised the opposition not to play into the hands of enemies by making the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project controversial. The remarks came after former Senate chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on a calling attention notice pointed out that the CPEC Authority Ordinance had lapsed …

ISLAMABAD: As the government came under fire in the Senate for presenting what the opposition called an unrealistic budget, a federal minister said that corruption and incompetence of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) was causing around Rs1 ­trillion revenue loss to the exchequer. Minister for Narcotics Control Senator Azam Swati in a tirade against the FBR termed it the …