{"id":67126,"date":"2020-06-25T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67126"},"modified":"2020-06-24T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:33:52","slug":"pm-directs-finance-advisor-sbp-finalise-policies-facilitate-overseas-pakistanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-directs-finance-advisor-sbp-finalise-policies-facilitate-overseas-pakistanis.html","title":{"rendered":"PM directs Finance Advisor, SBP to finalise policies to facilitate overseas Pakistanis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday directed Finance Advisor Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Dr Reza Baqir to work out the final details regarding the incentives for remittances and other policies to facilitate overseas Pakistan \u2014 a news source reported. The premier took the opportunity to refer to the Pakistanis abroad as the \u2018nation\u2019s assets\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-to-abolish-wht-on-remittances-in-fy-2020-21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to abolish WHT on remittances in FY2020-21<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said that facilitating the overseas Pakistanis was a high priority for the federal government. He made these comments while presiding over a meeting to discuss various methods to boost remittances by providing further incentives to the Pakistanis living abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar Bukhari said that nearly 1 million Pakistanis had immigrated overseas during the past 18 months, and that remittances to the country had improved as compared to other South Asian nations. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-raises-fees-remittances-exchange-banks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SBP raises fees on remittances for exchanges, banks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the economic slowdown caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Pakistan has received USD 20.5 billion in remittances during the current fiscal year \u2014 with the number showing a slight increase when compared to the USD 20.1 billion received during the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday directed Finance Advisor Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Dr Reza Baqir to work out the final details regarding the incentives for remittances and other policies to facilitate overseas Pakistan \u2014 a news source reported. The premier took the opportunity to refer to the Pakistanis abroad as the \u2018nation\u2019s assets\u2019. Read: Govt to abolish WHT on remittances in FY2020-21 He further said that facilitating the overseas Pakistanis was a high priority for the federal government. He made these comments while presiding over a meeting to discuss various methods to boost remittances by providing further incentives to the Pakistanis living abroad. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar Bukhari said that nearly 1 million Pakistanis had immigrated overseas during the past 18 months, and that remittances to the country had improved as compared to other South Asian nations. \u00a0 Read: SBP raises fees on remittances for exchanges, banks Despite the economic slowdown caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Pakistan has received USD 20.5 billion in remittances during the current fiscal year \u2014 with the number showing a slight increase when compared to the USD 20.1&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":66383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[32760,32759,32761],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-pm-directs-finance-advisor","9":"tag-remittances-by-overseas-pakistanis","10":"tag-sbp-to-finalise-policies-to-facilitate-overseas-pakistanis","11":"cat-15017-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 asks SBP to incentivise Pakistanis abroad - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday directed Finance Advisor Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Dr Reza Baqir to work out the final details regarding the incentives for remittances and other policies to facilitate overseas Pakistan \u2014 a news source reported.\" \/>\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-directs-finance-advisor-sbp-finalise-policies-facilitate-overseas-pakistanis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM asks SBP to incentivise Pakistanis abroad - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Tuesday directed Finance Advisor Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Dr Reza Baqir to work out the final details regarding the incentives for remittances and other policies to facilitate overseas Pakistan \u2014 a news source reported.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-directs-finance-advisor-sbp-finalise-policies-facilitate-overseas-pakistanis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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