{"id":88043,"date":"2025-10-10T16:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=88043"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:01:35","slug":"prime-minister-shehbaz-approves-cashless-pakistan-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/prime-minister-shehbaz-approves-cashless-pakistan-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Shehbaz approves Cashless Pakistan Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/task-force-working-to-cut-power-rates-soon-finance-minister-auranzaib\/\">Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb<\/a> has submitted a written report on the government\u2019s strategy for promoting a cashless economy in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The government has initiated important steps to promote a cashless economy.<\/p>\n<p>According to Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, the government has set a target of Rs 115 billion for digital transactions in the current financial year.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Prime Minister has approved the Cashless Pakistan Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 4 major goals have been set with the vision of a digital economy, which will be achieved by June 2026. The Federal Minister said that payments are being made easily, securely, and are accessible to all.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the volume of digital transactions will increase to Rs 115 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The target is to increase the number of merchants engaged in digital payments, including QR codes, to 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>There is a plan to increase the number of digital app users from 95 million to 120 million.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that 100 percent collection of remittances through digital means will be ensured. Work is also underway to strengthen digital infrastructure and promote internet availability.<\/p>\n<p>Government payments and receipts are being rapidly digitized through the Rast system.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister said that the implementation of the Rast QR Code will be ensured through banks and payment institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has submitted a written report on the government\u2019s strategy for promoting a cashless economy in Parliament. The government has initiated important steps to promote a cashless economy. According to Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, the government has set a target of Rs 115 billion for digital transactions in the current financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":88044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88043","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88045,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88043\/revisions\/88045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}