{"id":14068,"date":"2023-02-14T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2023-02-14T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:27:11","slug":"digital-power-of-attorney-facility-for-overseas-pakistanis-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/digital-power-of-attorney-facility-for-overseas-pakistanis-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital power of attorney facility for overseas Pakistanis launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital power of attorney facility for overseas Pakistanis launched. Bilawal described the sought-after move as the realisation of a major initiative to facilitate overseas Pakistanis.<\/p>\n<p>In a major breakthrough for the diaspora community, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday inaugurated the \u201cGlobal Launch of the automation of the Power of Attorney\u201d for overseas Pakistanis at a ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/1625488570151759874?s=20&#038;t=aO95htrYhaHHzt-BduW7BA<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks on the occasion, Bilawal \u2014 who is also chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) \u2014 described the sought-after move as the realisation of a major initiative to facilitate overseas Pakistanis. He also congratulated all those who worked hard to help make the project a reality.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bilawal-lambasts-imran-says-bushra-bibis-dreams-wont-hold-in-court.html\">Bilawal lambasts Imran, says Bushra Bibi&#8217;s dreams won&#8217;t hold in court<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The legalisation of power of attorney had been a longstanding demand of the Pakistani diaspora and will facilitate those who have to travel long distances from different cities and far-off places to the missions, the minister said, adding that this automated system would reduce costs and minimise hassle by providing attestation services at the doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official statement issued by the foreign ministry, \u201cThe automation of power of attorney was initially launched in November 2021 as a pilot project in 10 Pakistan Missions\u2019\/Sub-Missions\u2019 in the United States and the United Kingdom. Now, this service will be available to all the Pakistani diaspora living abroad globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Syed Hussain Tariq, Secretary Foreign Affairs Asad Majeed Khan, National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Chairman Muhammad Tariq Malik and others were among the attendees of the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital power of attorney facility for overseas Pakistanis launched. Bilawal described the sought-after move as the realisation of a major initiative to facilitate overseas Pakistanis. In a major breakthrough for the diaspora community, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday inaugurated the \u201cGlobal Launch of the automation of the Power of Attorney\u201d for overseas Pakistanis at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[399,2475,826,825,407,110,246],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-bilawal-bhutto-zardari","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-nadra","tag-national-database-and-registration-authority","tag-united-kingdom","tag-islamabad","tag-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}