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Cashless drive: Govt tightens digital payments oversight, plans tax reforms

Pakistan Published 14 October 2026, 04:31 · archived 14 Oct 2026

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to tighten the definitions of active digital payment users and merchants and introduce tax policy reforms to accelerate Prime Minister’s Cashless Pakistan initiative, as the number of merchants accepting electronic payments quadrupled in the last fiscal year. Minister of State for Railways and Finance, Bilal Azhar Kayani, on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting at the Finance Division regarding the Prime Minister’s “Cashless Pakistan” initiative with a focus on digital payments. The meeting brought together senior public and private sector stakeholders to ...

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