Petition Filed Against Google in Pakistan

According to the Dunya News, a petition has been filed against the biggest Search Engine of the world, Google, for doing business in Pakistan without registering the company in the country and having its office here.

This petition has been filed by Mr. Kamil Muzaffar with Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) of Pakistan. It has challenged Google’s authorities for doing business without having any physical office, and registering the company according to the laws of Pakistan.

According to the sources, after the holidays of Eid, IPO would call Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority (PTA), and the representatives of Google in Pakistan.

The petitioner is of the view that all the operations of Google are illegal in the country as it is not registered here. According to the petitioner, Google is earning millions of dollars just by a registered domain PKNIC, but it is not giving a single rupee tax on its earnings.

Petition claims that Google is violating the intellectual copyrights and is also evading taxes for last ten years.

Let us mention here that once FBR suggested to tax Google, but it was unable to do anything because of many reasons, and one of them was that the company was not a registered one.

Once Lahore High court had also asked Google to appear in the court during the hearing of the petition against the ban of YouTube in Pakistan, but neither the representatives of Google appeared in the court, nor they submit any reply or request for being unable to attend the proceedings of the court.