Youtube opening Case: Committee formed to monitor 8 million URL
YouTube was blocked by govt in Pakistan in Sept 2012 after a controversial and blasphemous movie Purity of Muslims was shown across the world. Government took the strategy that it would make every effort to remove a material from the YouTube web servers. A solution to open the Youtube seems around in Pakistan as Minister of State for Information and Technology- Anush Rehman Khan has taken one step forward in this direction. A four...
Auction of 3G licence likely to delay further
The new generation technology 3G that is being delayed since long will take several months more to be launched as the government is unable to form any policy regarding the new technology in the absence of Chairman Pakistan Telecom Authority. It is pertinent to mention here that the posts of PTA Chairman and two other top level members of the authority are still vacant and in the absence of these officials no further advancement on 3G...
15% Withholding tax on mobile cards to be applied from July 1,2013
Government’s stance on the withholding tax seems uncertain and their clarifications half baked. With an aim to increase tax inflow to maintain their promise of paying off the circular debt, the govt is capturing at every existe possible. Initially the tax on petroleum items was brought up in the budget speech of which the Supreme Court took notice and had it removed. As a desperate attempt, the government focused their attention on...
Telecommunications industry has contributed over Rs 510b as taxes
Telecom sector has contributed more than Rs510 billion as taxes in the last nine years but successive governments have squeezed the sector considering it a cash cow to hide their own inefficiencies. Questioning the wisdom of economic managers of the government behind decision to slap additional tax on telecom industry, experts said that an increase of 5 per cent withholding tax can have an impact on foreign investment in telecom...
PHC directs government to get Google to open office in Pakistan
In proceedings of case in Peshawar High Court (PHC) regarding blasphemous content on the internet the bench headed by Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Asadullah Khan Chamkani, the Federal Government was directed to sign treaties with Google, YouTube and other similar service providers to establish regional offices in the country. On May 28, the bench in PHC had ordered the respective authorities to take urgent steps to...
Anusha Rehman formed Committees to solve IT problems and oversee 3G auction
Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman re-informed of the agenda of the government led by Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PMLN) to help re-build economy of the country by increasing revenue generation and by creating more job opportunities. Her statement was given in a meeting with the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the Telecom operators in Islamabad which she was chairing. In the meeting were also discussed...
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