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WATCH: Journo’s question leaves FM scrambling for answers

Journalists staged a protest against the imposition of heavy taxes on wage earners ahead of Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s press conference on Thursday. The finance minister was about to address a post-budget press conference in Islamabad when journalists stood up in protest. Journalists recorded a symbolic protest shortly before the start of the press conference. They expressed concerns that while wages in the private sector are not increasing, heavy taxation has been imposed on private sector employees. The Express Tribune earlier reported that the federal government has increased the tax rate for both salaried and self-employed taxpayers in the federal