{
  "id": 18451832,
  "title": "Peshawar High Court declares levy of excise duty on hand-stemmed tobacco illegal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/peshawar-high-court-declares-levy-of-excise-duty-on-hand-stemmed-18451832",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-06T05:19:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn Business",
    "slug": "dawn-business",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2042432/peshawar-high-court-declares-levy-of-excise-duty-on-hand-stemmed-tobacco-illegal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has declared that Federal Excise Duty (FED) couldn’t be imposed on green leaf and hand-stemmed tobacco unless it has been processed and converted by a green leaf threshing (GLT) unit. A bench consisting of Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Mohammad Faheem Wali disposed of 14 petitions filed by some tobacco growers, tobacco companies and GLT units, challenging the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/pauline-hansons-high-court-appeal-will-put-freedom-of-speech-to-the",
        "published": "2026-11-06T06:02:09.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}