{"id":99814,"date":"2026-07-04T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=99814"},"modified":"2026-07-04T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:41:25","slug":"ihc-bars-nha-from-collecting-additional-toll-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/ihc-bars-nha-from-collecting-additional-toll-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"IHC bars NHA from collecting additional toll charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nThe Islamabad High Court (IHC) has restrained the National Highway Authority (NHA) from collecting additional toll charges from citizens.<br \/>\nThe court suspended a notification imposing a 50% additional toll on non-M-Tag users and motorists with low balances until the next hearing.<br \/>\nThe high court also issued notices to the NHA and other parties involved in the case, directing them to submit their responses.<br \/>\nJustice Arbab Muhammad Tahir issued a stay order, preventing the collection of the additional toll charges until further proceedings in the matter.<br \/>\nThe latest development comes months after the government suspended a proposed quarterly increase in toll plaza fees at the directives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, citing the need to provide relief to the public amid prevailing economic challenges.<br \/>\nIn April, Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan directed the NHA to withdraw a notification issued on April 1 and halt the increase scheduled to take effect from April 5.<br \/>\nA fresh notification was subsequently issued formally cancelling the earlier decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has restrained the National Highway Authority (NHA) from collecting additional toll charges from citizens. The court suspended a notification imposing a 50% additional toll on non-M-Tag users and motorists with low balances until the next hearing. The high court also issued notices to the NHA and other parties involved &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99841,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99814\/revisions\/99841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}