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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday forcefully defended in the Senate the appointment of IMF economist Dr Reza Baqir as the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor after the opposition blasted the government’s economic policies and called for announcing a new National Finance Commission (NFC) Award before the coming federal budget. Responding to the opposition’s allegations that the government had …

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