{"id":51524,"date":"2021-10-20T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51524"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:09:25","slug":"sind-high-court-orders-pakistans-government-to-regulate-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sind-high-court-orders-pakistans-government-to-regulate-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sind High Court orders Pakistan&#8217;s government to regulate cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sind High Court has directed the government to form within three months a committee to draft a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency regulation, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2325571\/shc-orders-govt-to-regulate-cryptocurrencies-within-three-months\">The Express Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The assignment is given to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the central bank, and the ministries of finance, justice, and information technology.<\/p>\n<p>The publication noted that the decision was made following the consideration of a petition challenging the central bank&#8217;s 2018 ban on cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, the National Assembly of Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pakistans-government-urged-to-legalise-cryptocurrencies-and-mining\">appealed for the passage of laws governing cryptocurrency ownership and Bitcoin mining<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sind High Court in Pakistan&#8217;s Sind province has directed the government to form within three months a committee to draft a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency regulation, according to The Express Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1269,1774,36],"class_list":["post-51524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-pakistan","tag-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51526,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524\/revisions\/51526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}