Pakistan Withdraws Controversial Telecom Infrastructure Bill

Govt withdraws controversial telecom bill, to bring new draft of proposed legislation

ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday withdrew a controversial bill that sought to give telecom licensees sweeping powers to install infrastructure on public and private land, saying it would introduce a new draft of the proposed legislation. The bill, seeking changes to a 1996 act, was originally tabled by Khawaja and approved by the National Assembly on June 11 by a majority vote, a day before the presentation of the federal budget 2026-27. It was then taken up in the Senate, where objections...

By [email protected] (Iftikhar A. Khan)