ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was baffled to learn on Wednesday that the entire telecommunication sector in the country was running unbridled and without effective regulation because the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority was virtually non-existent. Not only the post of PTA chairman has been lying vacant since February but important posts of its three members have also […]
Sir: On September 17, 2012, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ordered access to YouTube blocked after the website did not remove the trailer of Sam Bacile’s Innocence of Muslims, a film insulting Islam. Pakistan banned YouTube because it was considered blasphemous for defaming Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Since this ban months ago, the government has […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the information technology minister and the secretary to appear on Aug 2 for the court’s assistance in a petition challenging ban on the access to YouTube, a video-sharing website. Earlier, representatives of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the IT ministry told the court that blocking all […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday reissued notices to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority and MQM chief Altaf Hussain on a petition seeking ban on the media coverage of Mr Hussain’s addresses/speeches. Advocate Fayyaz Ahmad Mehar filed this petition and requested the court to restrain the media houses through […]
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block two Facebook pages carrying blasphemous material within three days and sought explanation from PTA and the interior ministry on their failure to do so until now. Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Qaiser Rasheed also asked PTA, Inter-Services Intelligence, […]
By: Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: The cellular companies’ sales volume has dropped by about 70 per cent after the Pakistan Telecom Authority banned retail channels for new SIMs over two months ago. The PTA on the direction of the interior ministry allowed the sale of the new connections only through company-owned service centers and franchises, limiting […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The ongoing power tussle in the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) took a new twist on Wednesday when hundreds of protesters demanded that the chief justice of Pakistan take suo moto notice of the ‘illegal’ harassment of two members of the authority. The protesters, including PTA officers and representatives of the Internet […]
By: Jawwad Rizvi LAHORE: The Cabinet Division has cancelled all orders issued by two members of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in exercise of the powers of the PTA chairman. The two members had been exercising these powers after the Lahore High Court set aside the appointment of PTA Chairman Farooq Awan on January 15, 2013. […]
Section 3 protects the acts, proceedings or decisions taken by PTA in case of the existence of a vacancy. The law ministry has clarified that the chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is the only one who can exercise powers related to the administration and staff of the PTA. In a statement issued to […]
By: Ahmad Noorani ISLAMABAD: An attempt to arrest a defiant PTA officer, who had objected to and highlighted serious loopholes in the process of the auctioning of $2 billion (expected) 3G licence was foiled by the authority’s employees. Dr Khawar, Member Technical of PTA was escorted to safety by the employees of PTA after a […]
By: Jawwad Rizvi LAHORE: The Cabinet Division, Senate Secretariat and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have agreed to resolve the issue of hiring the son of a prominent senator as assistant director in PTA and then pushing him three scales up as Zonal Director within a few months. The issue revolves around the hiring of Chairperson […]
By: Zubair Kasuri ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) nowadays is facing worst ever managerial crunch of the history as the PTA is running without a chairman. PTA Director General (Enforcement) Sajjad Latif Awan has written a letter to Nasrul Karim Ghaznavi, Member Finance, and Dr Khawar Siddique Khokhar, Member Technical, to stay within their limits […]
A division bench of Lahore High Court sought reply from the Federal government till February 24 in an Inter Court Appeal (ICA) of removed chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Farooq Awan against his suspension by a single bench. A single bench of the LHC on December 31, 2012 had declared his appointment unlawful by setting […]
LAHORE: The removed Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Farooq Awan has filed an intra court appeal (ICA) before Lahore High Court (LHC) against his suspension by a single bench. Applicant took the plea he was appointed as chairman of the Authority after the approval by the Prime Minister. He said there was nothing illegal […]
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