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Kasim Gillani on PTA Mobile Taxes: When Digital Policy Punishes the Citizen

Pakistan’s mobile taxes have turned smartphones into unusable luxuries. Learn why high PTA duties hurt freelancers, waste foreign exchange, and block digital growth—and why zero-rating phones may be the smarter policy.

“Jo legit sarkari kaamon mein rishwat deni parti hai, uski raseed honi chahiye.”

That cynicism isn’t cultural.
It’s systemic.

When legal pathways are punitive, opaque, and inflexible, informal shortcuts flourish. A simpler, transparent, minimal mobile policy would reduce misuse more effectively than any enforcement drive ever could.

This Is Bigger Than Phones

This debate is not about gadgets.
It’s about what the state considers essential.

If electricity meters can be subsidized,
If fuel can be adjusted,
If export sectors can be incentivized,

Then the tool powering education, freelancing, digital trade, and financial inclusion deserves the same seriousness.

A locked phone is not just a dead device.
It is a student disconnected.
A freelancer slowed.
A business muted.

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