{"id":15126,"date":"2026-09-10T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=15126"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:04:53","slug":"miftah-ismail-criticizes-petroleum-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=15126","title":{"rendered":"Miftah Ismail Criticizes Petroleum Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karachi: Former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has criticized the government\u2019s petroleum levy, saying petroleum products are being subjected to a <strong>30% levy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking on Geo News\u2019 programme <em>Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath<\/em>, he said most other products are subject to an <strong>18% GST<\/strong>, while petroleum products face a significantly higher burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ismail said the government could negotiate with the <strong>IMF<\/strong> to reduce the petroleum levy to 18%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that if the government cannot find even Rs30 billion within a budget of Rs30 trillion, it should be considered a failure of governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has criticized the government\u2019s petroleum levy, saying petroleum products are being subjected to a 30% levy. Speaking on Geo..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T140431.285.png",800,927,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T140431.285-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T140431.285-259x300.png",259,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T140431.285-768x890.png",768,890,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T140431.285.png",800,927,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T140431.285.png",800,927,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-10T140431.285.png",800,927,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126","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=15126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15128,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions\/15128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}