Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has announced plans to digitise all 172 person-to-government (P2G) services as part of a province-wide transition to a cashless payment system, to be fully implemented from September 1.
According to officials overseeing the reform programme, the initiative will integrate all government payment channels into a digital system, enabling citizens to make direct payments to the provincial treasury without manual processing.
The government has already digitised 148 services, while work is underway to complete digitisation of the remaining services before the deadline. Under the plan, all P2G payments will be processed through integrated digital platforms, including a dedicated revenue application and payment gateways linked with existing online systems.
Officials said finance rules are being amended through the Finance Act 2026 to provide legal cover for the digital payment framework.The system will cover account-1 payments, where public funds are deposited directly into the government treasury, as well as other service categories across departments.
Documents related to the initiative show that P2G revenue currently stands at PKR 42 billion annually, with projections of increased collection following full digitisation.The reform programme also includes the deployment of QR-based payment systems and integration with Raast and 1-Go platforms for electronic transactions.
Officials said that digitisation work is being carried out across 34 government departments, with 170 service payment heads already tagged for digital processing and the remaining in progress. The initiative also extends to non-account-1 services, including those of autonomous bodies and local government entities, which are being brought into the digital payment framework.
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