{"id":1143277,"date":"2026-01-08T21:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1143277"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:07:39","slug":"ihc-grants-time-to-agp-for-comments-in-pleas-against-pemra-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/ihc-grants-time-to-agp-for-comments-in-pleas-against-pemra-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"IHC grants time to AGP for comments in pleas against PEMRA notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>ISLAMABAD, Jan 08 (APP):The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday granted time to Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) for submission of comments in a case against PEMRA\u2019s notification to TV channels to pay 5 percent of annual revenue as tax.<\/div>\n<div>Justice Saman Rifat Imtiaz reserves verdict on petitions of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) and eight TV channels. Assistant Attorney General Imran Farooq Advocate appeared in court during the hearing.<\/div>\n<div>The Assistant Attorney General prayed the court to grant time for submission of written comments into the matter. The court accepted the request and granted one-week time for the written answer.<\/div>\n<div>The court had earlier reserved verdict on the petitions after hearing the arguments. The case was fixed for re-hearing due to non-issuance of notice to the Attorney General.<\/div>\n<div>The PBA and TV channels had approached Islamabad High Court against PEMRA notices in 2022. The court had issued a stay order on PEMRA notices to pay 5 percent tax on annual revenue from advertisements.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 08 (APP):The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday granted time to Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) for submission of comments in a case against PEMRA\u2019s notification to TV channels to pay 5 percent of annual revenue as tax. Justice Saman Rifat Imtiaz reserves verdict on petitions of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) and eight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2670,2671],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1143277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","tag-agp","tag-pemra","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143277"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1143277"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1143277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}