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ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to raise a set of highly technically equ­ipped battalions of paramilitary forces and customs under a multi-billion-rupee multi-pronged Border Moni­to­ring Initiative (BMI) to ch­eck cross-border smugg­ling, which causes significant losses to the national economy. A senior government official told Dawn that Prime Min­ister Imran Khan had already approved immediate recruitment of more than 2,000 officials, besides raising …

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