Government Initiative - Government to announce special concessions for overseas.

Prime Minister Imran Khan said, the government of Pakistan is working on policy to proclaim special incentives for overseas Pakistanis, who send remittances through legal channels. He was addressing the launching ceremony of Delivery of Home Remittances Scheme by Overseas Pakistanis through Pakistan Post. According to the source, the Prime Minister urged now families of overseas Pakistanis will be able to get remittances through a network of 500 designated post offices in Pakistan.

Prime Minister said overseas Pakistanis are a precious asset for the country and they played a vital role in the development of their homeland. Imran Khan already said that with 2019 being the year of difficulties and economic stabilisation, 2020 would prove as the year of economic development for Pakistan. During the year 2020, the focus will be on economic growth, job creation, poverty reduction and uplift of poor through the Ehsaas programme. The prime minister also said that the vision for Naya Pakistan was based upon discarding the old mindset and patronizing the merit system which in the past had badly hampered the functioning of all the government departments.

He said when they talked about the Naya Pakistan, they wanted to nurture a tendency of making new thoughts coupled with innovative ideas to make the lives of people easier. Drawing at length the difference between monarchy and democracy, the prime minister observed that in the past, the rulers wanted the people to serve them. The British rulers did not come to serve the people in the Sub-continent rather they looked upon the people as their servants, he said, adding but in the democratic set-up, rulers had to serve the people.

Imran Khan lamented that even after independence, the people did not change their mindset and the officials at the public offices continued with the same strand of ruling elite. The prime minister said that attempts were being made by his government to assist the merit system prevail and counted recent drastic measures to make the PIA a profit making organization and curbing the losses of Rs100 billion in power sector. He said that the year 2019 had been the tough one because of various issues and financial challenges and expressed the resolve to lift the country out of these challenges.

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