{"id":5099,"date":"2026-07-29T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:37:46","slug":"whats-really-behind-the-made-in-pakistan-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcn58.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":"\n<p>&#8220;Made in Pakistan&#8221; sounds simple enough, right? So if smartphones are now going through <strong>Local Assembly<\/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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong>70% to 80%<\/strong> of total manufacturing costs.<\/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:\/\/pcn58.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":5100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[706],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcn58.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}