Since 2019, Pakistan has introduced PTA taxes to register their mobile phones and to generate much-needed revenue to increase taxes. Pakistan has been updating taxes on a regular basis, and they have enhanced PTA taxes so that people can easily pay these taxes online, via a mobile banking app, or they can visit commercial bank branches to pay the taxes.
Moreover, these steps have also stopped the smuggling of mobiles, and most of the time people traveling to Europe, UAE, KSA, or USA tend to bring mobiles in bulk, which has made a negative impact on Pakistan's revenue generation.
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Donald Trump has also seemed to undermine the effectiveness of the program led by his own administration that developed Covid-19 vaccinations at a rapid pace when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acted to restrict who can receive them.
Pakistan is facing a flood situation in both KPK and Punjab. During mid-August, floods in KPK killed more than 300 people in KPK, and overall this year, the monsoon has killed over 800 people.