KABUL, or lower house of parliament, on Wednesday rejected with a majority vote a presidential decree imposing a 10 percent tax on cell phone-users.
The decree was endorsed by the Council of Ministers during the parliament’s summer recess, said Qais Hassan, the Wolesi Jirga’s telecommunication commission head, who placed the order before the house.
Hassan claimed the decree was violative of Article 79 of the constitution. Some other lawmakers also said the presidential action was in conflict with the constitution. Of the 125 . . .
