Retired Major General Hafeezur Rehman has been dismissed from his position as PTA’s chairman

The chairperson of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s (PTA) has been removed this Thursday by an Islamabad High Court division bench . The bench comprised of Justices Muhammad Asif and Inaam Ameen Minhas who took up Rehman’s intra-court appeal against the ruling issued by Justice Babar Sattar on Tuesday, which had ordered the PTA chief’s removal over his “illegal” appointment to the position on a plea filed by digital rights activist Usama Khilji in 2023.