{"id":5220,"date":"2026-07-29T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:36:15","slug":"whats-really-behind-the-made-in-pakistan-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/whats-really-behind-the-made-in-pakistan-label\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Really Behind the &#8220;Made in Pakistan&#8221; Label?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pdq2pgselectionanchorcontainer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Poppins;\">&#8220;Made in Pakistan&#8221; sounds simple enough, right? So if smartphones are now going through <strong><span style=\"font-family: Poppins;\">Local Assembly<\/span><\/strong> in Pakistan, why haven&#8217;t prices dropped the way many people expected? It&#8217;s a fair question, but the answer starts long before a phone reaches a local assembly line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Poppins;\">While many smartphones sold locally carry an &#8220;assembled in Pakistan&#8221; label, local factories use SKD (Semi-Knocked Down) and CKD (Completely Knocked Down) kits to assemble phones, high-tech components like processors, OLED displays, and camera modules are still made abroad accounting for <b>70% to 80%<\/b> of total manufacturing costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Made in Pakistan&#8221; sounds simple enough, right? So if smartphones are now going through Local Assembly in Pakistan, why haven&#8217;t prices dropped the way many people expected? It&#8217;s a fair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/whats-really-behind-the-made-in-pakistan-label\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[603],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnews99.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}