Lahore, 24th June: A petition has been filed against the lack of e-commerce facilities in Pakistan.
According to the Baaghi TV report, Pakistan has no access to the largest e-commerce company in the world, Amazon.
It is reported that Amazon had restricted anyone from Pakistan from logging in to its website because of the country’s unsecured payment method.
A petition has been file at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday against the lack of e-commerce facilities in the country.
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The petition has been filed by a citizen named Junaid Hafeez, stating that, “No official negotiations of an offer to start operations of ‘Amazon’ or ‘PayPal’ in Pakistan have been made thus far.”
“It transpires that the government failed [to take] this simple yet logical step towards globalization and modernization.”
Yesterday the Islamabad High Court has given the federal government two weeks to submit its response to a petition filed against the lack of e-commerce facilities in the country.
IHC Chief Justice (CJ) Athar Minallah has issued notices to the commerce and information technology ministries, noting that the petitioner was aggrieved because the respondents had failed to implement the mandatory requirements envisaged in the e-Commerce Policy, 2019.
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The petitioner pointed out that the e-commerce industry had grown to over $4 trillion worldwide but Pakistan had failed to cash in on the opportunities this sector offered because of the government’s “lack of interest”.
“The e-Commerce Policy, 2019 is defective and flawed in many aspects in as much as the same admits to amend the existing laws of consumer protection. In compassion, China Russia, and many other countries have special provisions in their consumer protection laws pertaining to e-commerce.”
Amazon marketplace has 8.5 million total sellers worldwide. So far this year 537,000 sellers joined all Amazon marketplaces. This equals to 3,091 new sellers every day, or 128 every hour, or even 2 every minute. At the current rate, 1.1 million new sellers will have joined Amazon by the end of the year.
Pakistan registers sellers with Amazon
Earlier, Adviser to the PM on Commerce and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood said that Pakistan was in the process of registering the goods sellers in Pakistan with the US e-commerce giant Amazon and has sent a list of 38 exporters for registration.
The initial list of 38 exporters comprises surgical and sports goods, and home textile sectors and the list will be expanded to other sectors in the near future, after a successful trial of the shortlisted companies.
Millions of small and medium-sized businesses are selling on Amazon from around the world.
Pakistan needs to introduce such international gateways in the country soon for the facilitation of the upcoming entrepreneurs.
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