ISLAMABAD: The Federal Finance Minister, Rana Mohammad Hanif has given firm instructions to the tax authorities to go all out against profiteers, black-marketeers and hoarders.

He was presiding over a meeting of heads of revenue collecting agencies and related services here today [Nov 1].

The Minister directed the authorities to ensure that the unscrupulous elements in the business community who were brazenly indulging in activities harmful to the national economy and the interests of the common man under no conditions escaped punishment. “The affairs of such delinquents should be closely examined and thoroughly investigated”, he added.

[Meanwhile,] about three thousand acres of agricultural land belonging to a Sind Minister and members of his family have been resumed by the orders of the Federal Food and Agriculture Minister, Shaikh Mohammad Rashid. … Official sources told [a news agency] that the land has been resumed as a result of the decision taken in all the eight cases relating to the declarations of this particular Minister and members of his family.

Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2026