{"id":69077,"date":"2025-03-26T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=69077"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:21:50","slug":"islamabad-to-become-pakistans-first-fully-digital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad-to-become-pakistans-first-fully-digital-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad to become Pakistan&#8217;s first fully digital city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cda-dha-hold-balloting-ceremony-for-margalla-enclave-plots\/\">Capital Development Authority<\/a> (CDA) has ambitious plans to change Islamabad into Pakistan&#8217;s first fully digital city. This means cashless transactions, futuristic traffic control, and high-speed internet across the city.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent meeting Sunday, chaired by CDA Chairman Muhammad Ali Randhawa, CDA discussed a tech-based infrastructure, involving drone surveillance, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pia-remains-on-uk-air-safety-list-ban-still-in-place\/\">AI-based<\/a> congestion analysis, and digital monitoring of speed to streamline traffic flow.<\/p>\n<p>To boost a cashless economy, CDA also plans to promote QR-code payments at businesses, restaurants, and shops with incentives for registering with the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/fbr-extends-deadline-for-sales-tax-excise-returns-to-march-27\/\">Federal Board of Revenue<\/a> (FBR).<\/p>\n<p>Blue Area, Food Street, and Parking Plaza will be piloting the code payments. CDA&#8217;s one-window operations are completely digitized already, with payments made online. Chairman Randhawa said a digitized Islamabad would set a national standard for other cities, citing the virtues of cashless cultures, such as more transparency and less corruption.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy is part of Islamabad&#8217;s advancement in digital transformation, also discussed at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has ambitious plans to change Islamabad into Pakistan&#8217;s first fully digital city. This means cashless transactions, futuristic traffic control, and high-speed internet across the city. At a recent meeting Sunday, chaired by CDA Chairman Muhammad Ali Randhawa, CDA discussed a tech-based infrastructure, involving drone surveillance, AI-based congestion analysis, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":69079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[567,13236],"class_list":["post-69077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-federal-board-of-revenue","tag-capital-development-authority-cda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69077","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69080,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69077\/revisions\/69080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}