{"id":58191,"date":"2019-12-01T09:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T04:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58191"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T08:04:00","slug":"pm-economic-team-discuss-measures-to-boost-remittances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-economic-team-discuss-measures-to-boost-remittances.html","title":{"rendered":"PM, economic team discuss measures to boost remittances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed the relevant officials to take every possible measure to facilitate overseas Pakistanis, and ensure that their families back home receive the full amount of remittances consigned to them \u2014 a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/spb-increases-transaction-limits-home-remittances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SBP increases transaction limits for home remittances<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PM was presiding over a meeting of the government&#8217;s economic team, during which he was presented a proposed incentives package regarding the remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis through legal channels.<\/p>\n<p>The incentive package proposed that the banks and exchange companies should be offered special benefits for the promotion of foreign remittances. It has also been proposed that the amount of money required for such transactions should be reduced. Other measures being taken to further improve the system include the renewal of foreign exchange remittance cards.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-receives-remittances-worth-usd-2-03-bn-july.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan receives remittances worth USD 2.03 bn in July<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A promotion campaign was also proposed under which the overseas Pakistani sending remittances may have a chance to win prizes through lucky draws. In addition, it has been proposed that opening a bank account should be made mandatory for people planning on travelling abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed the relevant officials to take every possible measure to facilitate overseas Pakistanis, and ensure that their families back home receive the full amount of remittances consigned to them \u2014 a news source reported. Read:\u00a0SBP increases transaction limits for home remittances The PM was presiding over a meeting of the government&#8217;s economic team, during which he was presented a proposed incentives package regarding the remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis through legal channels. The incentive package proposed that the banks and exchange companies should be offered special benefits for the promotion of foreign remittances. It has also been proposed that the amount of money required for such transactions should be reduced. Other measures being taken to further improve the system include the renewal of foreign exchange remittance cards. Read:\u00a0Pakistan receives remittances worth USD 2.03 bn in July A promotion campaign was also proposed under which the overseas Pakistani sending remittances may have a chance to win prizes through lucky draws. In addition, it has been proposed that opening a bank account should be made mandatory for people planning on travelling abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":53255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[14222,5627],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-economic-team-discuss-measures-to-boost-remittances","9":"tag-pm","10":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM, economic team discuss measures to boost remittances - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed the relevant officials to take every possible measure to facilitate overseas Pakistanis, and ensure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-economic-team-discuss-measures-to-boost-remittances.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM, economic team discuss measures to boost remittances - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed the relevant officials to take every possible measure to facilitate overseas Pakistanis, and ensure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-economic-team-discuss-measures-to-boost-remittances.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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