Reporting requirements

Regulation 47(1) of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (Functions and Powers) Regulations, 2006 empowers PTA to require a licensee to provide any information for the purposes of carrying out its functions, and a licensee is under an obligation to provide the information sought by PTA

Regulation 47(3) provides that non-compliance with Regln. 47 shall be treated as a violation of the license condition and action under S.23 of the Pakistan Telecommunication Re-organization Act, 1996, may be initiated.

Petitioner was issued show cause notice under S.23 of Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act 1996 by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) by virtue of which petitioner was asked to submit International Incoming Traffic Data for the months of January, February and March 2010 and also explain in writing within thirty days of the issuance of the said notice as to why their licence should not be suspended, terminated or any other enforcement order should not be passed against them

Held, petitioner, through the show-cause notice, was asked to provide information as required under Rule 12(1)(a) of the Access Promotion Rules, 2004 and therefore no adverse order had been passed against the petitioner

Show-cause notice could not be challenged in constitutional jurisdiction

Constitutional petition being not maintainable, same was accordingly dismissed with costs.