New market: US-based PayPal offers an online payment platform. Pakistan has a growing IT industry that mainly provides outsourcing services in the form of coding to major Western clients.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to invite global online payment giants PayPal and Alibaba to offer their services in the country, the IT ministry has said, after easing its e-commerce rules.
The move follows a decision by the global Financial Action Task Force to remove Pakistan from its list of high-risk and non-cooperative jurisdictions linked to money laundering.
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