*ISLAMABAD – Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for OverseasPakistanis and Human Resource Development Sayed Zulfi Bukhari has proposedto reward overseas Pakistanis who use proper banking channels to sendremittance.*
“In recognition of our overseas Pakistanis who use banking channels to sendmoney back home, my ministry has proposed to reward them for theircontribution to the national exchequer. I will be backing this initiativewith full force so in time we can kill the menace of hundi/havala,” saidBukhari in a tweet.
As per the office memo shared by Bukhari, the ministry is in process ofdevising a Manual of Privileges for Overseas Pakistanis-2019. “Accordinglyall relevant stakeholders have been requested to furnish the input/proposedprivileges to be extended by their organization/department,” thenotification reads.
One of the proposed privileges for the overseas Pakistanis could be the’duty free import of one hybrid car (up to 3000cc) to Foreign ExchangeRemittance Card (FERC) holders, who remit $100,000, over a period of 2years’.
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Just days ago, Bukhari said that the government was determined to promotereligious tourism to pull maximum number of tourists to Pakistan fromacross the globe for the prosperity of the country.
“Religious tourism has great potential to attract a large number ofreligious tourists including Sikh and Buddhists to Pakistan which wasneglected by the past governments”, he said while addressing the UnitedKingdom Sikh community at Rembrandt Hotel London.
