Amazon, Flipkart Among E-Commerce Sites To Get Govt Notice Over Pakistani Flags, Merchandise

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Last Updated:May 14, 2025, 23:50 IST

The Central Consumer Protection Authority has sent notices to six e-commerce platforms including Amazon and Flipkart for listing Pakistani flags and related merchandise.

E-commerce giants served authorities notices for listing Pakistani flags online amid heightened nationalist sensitivity. (IMAGE: REUTERS)

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) issued notices to starring e-commerce platforms including Amazon India, Flipkart, Ubuy India, Etsy, The Flag Company and The Flag Corporation implicit the merchantability of Pakistani nationalist flags and related merchandise connected their websites, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution & New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi.

In a connection released connected Wednesday connected societal media tract X, the Union Minister described the listings arsenic “insensitive" and said specified contented would not beryllium tolerated. The platforms person been directed to instrumentality down each specified products instantly and guarantee strict compliance with Indian laws.

“The CCPA has issued notices to @amazonIN, @Flipkart, @UbuyIndia, @Etsy, The Flag Company and The Flag Corporation implicit the merchantability of Pakistani flags and related merchandise. Such insensitivity volition not beryllium tolerated. E-commerce platforms are hereby directed to instantly region each specified contented and adhere to National laws," the Dharwad MP said successful a station connected his X page.

The announcement from the Union Minister comes amid heightened tensions betwixt the neighbours India and Pakistan arsenic they came adjacent to a struggle aft Islamabad utilized terrorists to people guiltless civilians and past tried to onslaught India aft Indian equipped forces demolished panic hideouts heavy wrong Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The palmy strikes nether Operation Sindoor which saw Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) hideouts struck and implicit 100 terrorists killed marked a caller mean successful India’s counter-terror operations.

A startled Pakistan service intervened connected behalf of terrorists and tried to onslaught India implicit a play of 4 days utilizing drones, UAVs and cross-border firing and shelling, targeting civilians and subject installations alike but bulk of the attacks were repelled by Indian aerial defences.

Indian Air Force (IAF) besides struck eleven aerial bases heavy wrong Pakistan, causing extended harm to them.

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