The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has given the federal government two weeks to submit its reply over the absence of quality e-commerce services in Pakistan.
Athar Minallah, the Chief Justice of IHC has issued notices to the information technology and commerce sectors for remaining unsuccessful to meet the needs as quoted by the e-commerce policy, which has kept the big firms like Amazon and Paypal to enter the country.
Hafeez Junaid the petitioner knowledgeable the excessive courtroom that Pakistan can not entry the world’s largest e-commerce retailer that’s Amazon. He additionally stated that from a decade Amazon has blocked anybody belonging to Pakistan from logging in to the web site. The principle purpose behind doing it’s the insecure fee methodology of the nation.
The petition quoted: “No official negotiations of an offer to start operations of Amazon and PayPal in Pakistan have been made thus far. It transpires that the government failed to take the simple yet logical towards globalization and modernization.”
Over the decades, the e-commerce industry has grown to over $4 trillion globally, but because of a disinterest at government level, Pakistan has failed to take advantage of the opportunities on offer, the plaintiff argued.
The petitioner argued that the 2019 e-commerce strategy was faulty and ineffective, adding that the data protection rule, which is essential to healthy e-commerce development anywhere in the world.
Abdul Razak Dawood, special advisor to Prime Minister on Commerce and Investment , disclosed that Pakistan is in process of registering the country’s good sellers with US e-commerce giant Amazon. The country has sent a list of 38 exporters for registration
