{"id":84290,"date":"2025-08-28T17:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=84290"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:19:55","slug":"is-temu-getting-banned-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/is-temu-getting-banned-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is TEMU getting banned in Pakistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pta-rejects-claims-of-jazz-overbilling-clarifies-no-report-submitted-to-pm\/\"> Pakistan Telecommunication Authority<\/a> (PTA) received a complaint from the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) after the local business community filed its request for a ban on a popular e-commerce website, Temu.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicated that CCP had received submissions from the Chain Store Association of Pakistan (CAP) and the Pakistan Retail Business Council (PRBC), expressing concerns regarding Temu&#8217;s unregulated operations in Pakistan. They also highlighted the threat to local businesses posed by the e-commerce platform.<\/p>\n<p>The local business entities asserted that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistans-e-commerce-sector-skyrockets-to-46th-global-rank\/\">Temu<\/a> and Shein are operating in Pakistan without obtaining regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<p>In the complaint, PRBC called for the imposition of a ban on Temu&#8217;s business, stating that it would have adverse impacts on local retailers and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>In its correspondence to PTA, the competition commissioner stated that banning mobile applications listed on Google Play Store and similar platforms is outside its remit.<\/p>\n<p>CCP stated it enters PTA&#8217;s arena to regulate and prohibit access to online portals in accordance with existing laws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In light of the above, the case is hereby referred to the PTA for further appropriate action, if necessary,&#8221; stated the CCP letter.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the final decision as to whether or not a ban should be imposed on Temu will be made by the PTA after considering all the factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) received a complaint from the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) after the local business community filed its request for a ban on a popular e-commerce website, Temu. Reports indicated that CCP had received submissions from the Chain Store Association of Pakistan (CAP) and the Pakistan Retail Business Council (PRBC), expressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":84292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4210,30945],"class_list":["post-84290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-pta","tag-temu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84293,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84290\/revisions\/84293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}