{"id":68692,"date":"2020-08-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=68692"},"modified":"2020-07-29T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:09:40","slug":"govt-mulling-incentives-overseas-pakistanis-sapm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulling-incentives-overseas-pakistanis-sapm.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulling incentives for overseas Pakistanis: SAPM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari on Wednesday stated that the government was considering several incentives for overseas Pakistanis, a news source reported. He said that the government intended to offer these individuals discounted airfares, pensions, easy remittance transfers, and investment opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-action-plan-underway-re-employ-laid-off-overseas-pakistanis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt action plan underway to re-employ laid-off overseas Pakistanis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bukhari highlighted that the government was considering a policy on this matter. He added that there was a possibility that these incentives for overseas Pakistanis be introduced within the next few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bukhari said that the government was planning to expand the Employees\u2019 Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) by bringing informal workers under its net. This would include drivers, labourers, cooks, other domestic workers, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-construct-3-star-5-star-hotels-promote-tourism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pak to construct 3-star, 5-star hotels to promote tourism: SAPM Bukhari<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also highlighted the government\u2019s recent policy on hiring overseas Pakistanis who had lost their jobs during the coronavirus recession. He added that these individuals were hired as \u2018jungle workers\u2019 for the PM\u2019s Ten Billion Tree Tsunami initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Overseas Pakistanis Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari on Wednesday stated that the government was considering several incentives for overseas Pakistanis, a news source reported. He said that the government intended to offer these individuals discounted airfares, pensions, easy remittance transfers, and investment opportunities. Read: Govt action plan underway to re-employ laid-off overseas Pakistanis Bukhari highlighted that the government was considering a policy on this matter. He added that there was a possibility that these incentives for overseas Pakistanis be introduced within the next few months. Bukhari said that the government was planning to expand the Employees\u2019 Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) by bringing informal workers under its net. This would include drivers, labourers, cooks, other domestic workers, he added. Read: Pak to construct 3-star, 5-star hotels to promote tourism: SAPM Bukhari He also highlighted the government\u2019s recent policy on hiring overseas Pakistanis who had lost their jobs during the coronavirus recession. He added that these individuals were hired as \u2018jungle workers\u2019 for the PM\u2019s Ten Billion Tree Tsunami initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15020],"tags":[36010],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-social-developments","9":"tag-details-on-govt-mulling-incentives-for-overseas-pakistanis-sapm","10":"cat-15012-id","11":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt mulling incentives for overseas Pakistanis: SAPM - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SAPM on Overseas Pakistanis Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari on Wednesday stated that the government was considering several incentives for overseas Pakistanis.\" \/>\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\/govt-mulling-incentives-overseas-pakistanis-sapm.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt mulling incentives for overseas Pakistanis: SAPM - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SAPM on Overseas Pakistanis Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari on Wednesday stated that the government was considering several incentives for overseas Pakistanis.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulling-incentives-overseas-pakistanis-sapm.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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