October 17 – Dawn report by Iftikhar A. Khan states that months after temporarily doing away with additional taxes and service charges imposed on customers on the purchase of top-up cards for pre-paid cellular connections, the Supreme Court on Tuesday barred mobile phone companies from levying additional charges on post-paid connections. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar also ordered continuation of relief the court had provided to the pre-paid connection holders and ordered the government and the service providers not to charge any tax from them till a proper legislation was enacted to address the issue.

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