IHC Asks Govt to Facilitate
IHC CJ Athar Minallah 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.
The petition, a citizen named Junaied Hafeez, informed the court that
He elaborated that since a decade,
'No official negotiations of offer to start operations of
'It transpires that the government failed [to take] this simple yet logical towards globalisation and modernisation.'
The petitioner pointed out that the e-commerce industry had grown to over
He further pleaded to the court to declare the e-Commerce Policy, 2019 flawed and defective.
'The e-Commerce Policy, 2019 is defective and flawed in many aspects inasmuch 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,'
The petitioner maintained that data protection law(s) were a condition precedent for the successful and growing e-commerce industry. 'However, there is no data protection law in
Millions of small and medium-sized businesses from around the world are selling on
So far this year 537,000 sellers joined all
This is adding to the millions of sellers already on the marketplace, and was mostly contributed to by 96,210 new sellers in Amazon.com, 67,636 new sellers in Amazon.nl, and 49,764 new sellers in Amazon.in.
Adviser to the PM on Commerce and Investment
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 successful trial of the shortlisted companies.
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