{"id":36243,"date":"2024-05-14T13:31:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36243"},"modified":"2024-05-14T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:31:33","slug":"ihc-restrains-govt-from-blocking-sims-of-non-filers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ihc-restrains-govt-from-blocking-sims-of-non-filers\/","title":{"rendered":"IHC restrains govt from blocking SIMs of non-filers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) stopped the government from blocking the mobile phone SIMs of non-filers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the petition of mobile phone companies, IHC Chief Justice Aamir Farooq issued a stay order on the petition against the government&#8217;s decision to block the SIM cards of non-filers till May 27.<\/p>\n<p>Senior lawyer Salman Akram Raja appeared before Islamabad High Court as the counsel of mobile phone companies.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that an agreement has been reached between the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and telecom operators on the issue of blocking the SIMs of non-filers across the country, under which the series of blocking the SIMs of non-filers has started from May 10.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sim-cards-of-3500-users-not-filing-tax-returns-blocked-details-inside\/\">SIM cards of 3,500 users not filing tax returns blocked; Details inside<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the\u00a0Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked the SIM cards of 3,500 customers who did not submit tax returns and issued warnings to another 5,000 non-filers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) stopped the government from blocking the mobile phone SIMs of non-filers on Tuesday. Hearing the petition of mobile phone companies, IHC Chief Justice Aamir Farooq issued a stay order on the petition against the government&#8217;s decision to block the SIM cards of non-filers till May 27. Senior lawyer Salman Akram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[1203,16893,16894],"class_list":["post-36243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-islamabad-high-court","tag-non-filers-sim-blocked","tag-pakistan-sim-blocking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}