ISLAMABAD: CJ of IHC Justice Aamer Farooq, while hearing Zong’s petition on Tuesday (14th May, 2024), has issued a stay order till 27th May barring FBR from blocking the SIMs of Non-Filers.

Zong’s advocate Salman Akram Raja held that the Constitutional Amendment carried out by the government in this regard was in violation of the basic right of Freedom of Business granted in Article 18.

Maintaining that: “The government cannot get the power to block people’s mobile phone SIMs by amending the law”, Salman Akram Raja informed that blocking of half a million SIMs would translate into loss of Rs. 1 billion per annum.

The respondents have been asked to file their statements by 27th of May, 2024.

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