{"id":69558,"date":"2020-08-22T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=69558"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:40:30","slug":"pm-approves-roshan-digital-account-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-approves-roshan-digital-account-project.html","title":{"rendered":"PM approves Roshan Digital Account project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday approved the Roshan Digital Account project for overseas Pakistanis, according to a news source published on August 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ecc-enhances-sbps-authorisation-limit-overseas-investments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ECC enhances SBP\u2019s authorisation limit for overseas investments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While chairing a high-level meeting in the capital, he said that it was the government\u2019s top priority to facilitate overseas Pakistanis and their families \u2013 as they contribute a lot to the development of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this Roshan Digital Account project, the overseas Pakistanis will be allowed to open foreign and local currency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/overseas-pakistanis-separate-account-category-investment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accounts<\/a>, without being physically present in the country. The expatriates will only need to offer basic documents and information to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-mulling-incentives-overseas-pakistanis-sapm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt mulling incentives for overseas Pakistanis: SAPM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SBP is launching this initiative \u2013 to be formally launched in September \u2013 for the overseas Pakistanis in collaboration with eight major commercial banks in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday approved the Roshan Digital Account project for overseas Pakistanis, according to a news source published on August 20. Read: ECC enhances SBP\u2019s authorisation limit for overseas investments While chairing a high-level meeting in the capital, he said that it was the government\u2019s top priority to facilitate overseas Pakistanis and their families \u2013 as they contribute a lot to the development of the country. Under this Roshan Digital Account project, the overseas Pakistanis will be allowed to open foreign and local currency accounts, without being physically present in the country. The expatriates will only need to offer basic documents and information to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) online. Read: Govt mulling incentives for overseas Pakistanis: SAPM The SBP is launching this initiative \u2013 to be formally launched in September \u2013 for the overseas Pakistanis in collaboration with eight major commercial banks in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":69568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"cat-15016-id","10":"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 approves Roshan Digital Account project - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday approved the Roshan Digital Account project for overseas Pakistanis, according to a news source\" \/>\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-approves-roshan-digital-account-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM approves Roshan Digital Account project - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday approved the Roshan Digital Account project for overseas Pakistanis, according to a news source\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-approves-roshan-digital-account-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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