Radio Pakistan thinks it has monoply over the equipment called radio and they want to put a licence fee on every piece of radio in the country to survive the financial crunch.
Their last attempt to add a tax to mobile recharges and purchase of new handset was demolished by some sane soul in the government.
During second stint of PML-N, Mushahid Hussain Sayed, the then info minister abolished Radio Licence and added the TV fees in electricity bill.
This fees is also put under clolonial era wireless and radio laws. We are also paying our cable operator to watch PTV and PTV is also extracting the licence fee from our electric bills.