Connect with Zorays

Hi, what are you looking for?

Politics & Governance

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.

No PTA TAX

“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.

READ:   Qasim Ali Shah Wrong Number

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like

World Affairs

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye’s Makkah defence pact creates collective deterrence—but its Article 51 limits and obligations demand scrutiny.

World Affairs

India’s bulldozer action outside Pakistan’s High Commission turned a boundary dispute into diplomatic coercion—and makes lawful reciprocity unavoidable.

Politics & Governance

Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered Imran Khan moved to Shifa Hospital, turning a medical right into a test of selective accountability and political memory.

World Affairs

Sergio Gor called Kashmir part of India. Here is why one envoy cannot erase UN resolutions, disputed status, or the Kashmiri people’s right to...

Technology & AI

Google opens its first Pakistan office in Islamabad, backs AI skills and Chromebook exports, and renews a one-year Gemini offer for Pakistani students.

World Affairs

The Makkah defence pact gives Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye collective deterrence—but Trump’s approval raises harder questions about Israel and America.

World Affairs

Modi’s extraordinary Delhi-Tashkent detour exposes what maps cannot hide: Pakistan’s airspace remains strategically expensive for India to bypass.

Advertisement