{"id":14927,"date":"2026-04-18T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14927"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:55:12","slug":"petroleum-development-levy-challenged-in-lahore-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=14927","title":{"rendered":"Petroleum Development Levy challenged in Lahore High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LAHORE: The recovery of Rs 180 billion rupees petroleum development levy has been challenged in the Lahore High Court on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been pleaded in a petition that the government has recovered 1,234 billion rupees petroleum levy from July to mid-April. \u201cThe government has failed to provide relief to general public despite drop in petroleum prices\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fluctuations in prices of petroleum products have badly affected the workers and the salaried class,\u201d according to the petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petitioner has requested to the high court to declare the levy \u201can unconstitutional economic exploitation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe court should declare the policy that prevents transfer of the benefit of declining prices in the international markets to consumers,\u201d petitioner requested to the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is to be mentioned here that the federal government has collected more than Rs180 billion from the public under the Petroleum Development Levy (PDL) over the past one and a half months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Finance sources said that the collection of the levy on petroleum products in Pakistan has increased extraordinarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said that during the recent escalation and conflict between the United States and Iran, the government collected over Rs180 billion in the PDL from consumers within approximately six weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data shows that from July of the current fiscal year to mid-April, a total of Rs1,234 billion has been collected under the petroleum levy. This represents an increase of around Rs400 billion compared to the same period last fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The recovery of Rs 180 billion rupees petroleum development levy has been challenged in the Lahore High Court on Saturday. It has been pleaded in a petition that the government has recovered 1,234 billion rupees petroleum levy from July to mid-April. \u201cThe government has failed to provide relief to general public despite drop in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875","service":"facebook","timestamp":1776495327,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14929,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927\/revisions\/14929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}