{"id":647728,"date":"2026-08-24T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=841829"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:52:53","slug":"pakistan-puts-crypto-firms-on-notice-as-sept-5-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/pakistan-puts-crypto-firms-on-notice-as-sept-5-deadline-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Puts Crypto Firms on Notice as Sept. 5 Deadline Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pakistan-puts-crypto-firms-on-notice-as-sept--5-deadline-looms-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pakistan PVARA notice.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Pakistan has officially thrown the switch on its virtual asset licensing regime, putting existing crypto businesses against a hard deadline to secure regulatory clearance or stop operating. The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) opened the licensing gates after final regulations under the Virtual Assets Act, 2026, were notified. Existing virtual asset service providers operating [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has officially thrown the switch on its virtual asset licensing regime, putting existing crypto businesses against a hard deadline to secure regulatory clearance or stop operating. The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) opened the licensing gates after final regulations under the Virtual Assets Act, 2026, were notified. Existing virtual asset service providers operating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-647728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-regulation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}