Citation Name: 2025 CLC 1733 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case WORLDCALL CABLE (PRIVATE) LIMITED vs The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Islamabad Ss — 2025 CLC 1733 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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Citation: 2025 CLC 1733 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: CLC
Parties: Citation Name: 2025 CLC 1733 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case WORLDCALL CABLE (PRIVATE) LIMITED vs The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Islamabad Ss
Subject matter: Constitutional

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Citation Name: 2025 CLC 1733 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case WORLDCALL CABLE (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Islamabad Ss. 3 & 9---Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Rules, 2009, Rr.5, 6(2), 8, 10, 12 & Schedule B---Cable TV---Renewal of licence fee---Petitioner was aggrieved of charging of fee on the basis of category of licence according to number of subscribers tabulated in Table VI, Schedule-B of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Rules, 2009 and not on the basis of actual number of subscribers---Validity---Petitioner could not pick and choose vertical columns of his choice---If any licence was categorized accordingly, then all the nomenclature that it followed would come with it---Notified Rules and the Table which provided for subscriber licensee were not in violation of any rights guaranteed under the licence to petitioner as licensee---Demand raised by Licensing Authority as per Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Rules, 2009 could not be suspended or annulled as the same was not solely dependent on the number of subscribers as urged by petitioner---Number of subscribers would come with the category of licence which was enjoyed---Petitioner chose to have a B-10 licence and number of subscribers would come as an inbuilt mechanism as a part of the Table VI to Schedule-B of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Rules, 2009---Petitioner had no choice but to take it or leave it and could not pick and choose as he desired within the Table---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

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