Islamabad to become fully cashless city by end of 2026

[El Sidd]

Sufi Saints are ruling Pakistan.

 

[RescueRanger]

Which Idiot comes up with these ideas in Pakistan ?

That is a good question.

 

[safriz]

That is a good question.

So...everyone should pay a foreign company a chunk of their money, just for the privilege of being allowed to sound their own money .
Visa or Mastercard are based in countries who just hate Muslims.

To be honest its not even about foreign or local.
Lover of Muslim or hater .
Why should I be forced to pay a percentage of my money to be able to spend my money.

 

[عقاب]

Every capital city, be it federal or provincial, should be like this, forcefully if the need arises specially by FBR.

Oppression oriented taxes for poor and middle class

 

[PK781]

Which Idiot comes up with these ideas in Pakistan ?

bro its a plan for the jew-zions to turn the whole world into cashless and slave of digital currency which can be shutdown on a moment or for anyone

and our idiots in govt are special retards who want to implement that eagerly to appease their jewish masters as their wealth is all hidden abroad in their banks....

This will again crush the poor, forcing them to pay expensive bank fees and charges and maintain accounts........a small tuck shop owner doesnt need that as they can barely, but rather, cant even make ends meet.......

maybe a place like centaurus mall or something can be cashless or the islamabad airport.....but then these idiots need to ensure there is good internet coverage for free (wifi) everywhere........

when i was in pak last yr i had very poor internet in Rwp even with the most expensive pkg, lol.......it was being throttled (due to stupid protests) or some security situations or some cricket team playing a match.......

yeah good luck with that......its just not possible as we have so much loadshedding that its not feasible

CASH IS KING , ALWAYS

 

[RealNapster]

Which Idiot comes up with these ideas in Pakistan ?

The one who dont need our vote and are not answerable to us.

 

[Michael]

bro its a plan for the jew-zions to turn the whole world into cashless and slave of digital currency which can be shutdown on a moment or for anyone

Do not attribute every problem to Zionism. This is an attitude that expresses one's extreme incompetence.

Cashless payment is a major future trend—one that cannot be stopped. Our focus should be on ensuring its security, rather than rejecting it entirely.

In China today, there is absolutely no need to carry cash; a smartphone is all one requires. Even when traveling anywhere within the country, carrying cash is unnecessary. One does not even need to carry a physical ID card, as a digital version stored on one’s smartphone suffices.

In China today, the leather wallet business has become extinct, and it is now limited to export.

 

[ACE OF HEARTS]

History does repeat itself.

Perhaps because humans have stopped evolving?

Muslims / Ottomans rejected the use of the printing press and adopted it hundreds of years later, contributing to falling behind in science as compared to the western world.

What the Printing Press and Stagnation in the Islamic World Teach about AI

Although Johannes Gutenberg invented the press around 1450 and the Ottomans knew about it as early as the 1480s, the Ottomans suppressed the press for some 250 years.

www.aei.org

https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-did-the-ottomans

 

[safriz]

History does repeat itself.

Perhaps because humans have stopped evolving?

Muslims / Ottomans rejected the use of the printing press and adopted it hundreds of years later, contributing to falling behind in science as compared to the western world.

What the Printing Press and Stagnation in the Islamic World Teach about AI

Although Johannes Gutenberg invented the press around 1450 and the Ottomans knew about it as early as the 1480s, the Ottomans suppressed the press for some 250 years.

www.aei.org

https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-did-the-ottomans

In calcutta India, they still used people carrying sacks to load large cargo ships, instead of using grabs and cranes. When asked, the officials said, its because these people need employment.
Sometimes reasons are different than they seem to be.

 

[ustaad]

Do not attribute every problem to Zionism. This is an attitude that expresses one's extreme incompetence.

Cashless payment is a major future trend—one that cannot be stopped. Our focus should be on ensuring its security, rather than rejecting it entirely.

In China today, there is absolutely no need to carry cash; a smartphone is all one requires. Even when traveling anywhere within the country, carrying cash is unnecessary. One does not even need to carry a physical ID card, as a digital version stored on one’s smartphone suffices.

In China today, the leather wallet business has become extinct, and it is now limited to export.

I am not against tech, in fact I design and develop tech products but I am always wary of putting all my eggs in one basket. What if the phone suddenly starts malfunctioning or its battery dies. Also the recent wave of AI assisted cybersecurity incidents make me wary a bit more. All I say is we should use technology as a tool to improve our lives and not to become a tool for tech instead.

Sometimes I have also considered keeping a full size city map in car just in case of some global internet blackout/apocalypse/solar storm etc.

 

[313Ghazi]

When you were children did you guys ever read the book "The emperor's new clothes". If you didn't read it, give it a quick google. It's a very short story. It explains this whole situation perfectly.

 

[maxpane]

all country is cashless except elite

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Looks like the Pak Deep State is slowly revealing the true strength of its deep economy since it has now the assurance that the Western Imperialistic institutions to assert control over the rest of the world are slowly eroding in power and prestige....

Timing, Bon Ami, timing.....

 

[PK781]

Do not attribute every problem to Zionism. This is an attitude that expresses one's extreme incompetence.

Cashless payment is a major future trend—one that cannot be stopped. Our focus should be on ensuring its security, rather than rejecting it entirely.

In China today, there is absolutely no need to carry cash; a smartphone is all one requires. Even when traveling anywhere within the country, carrying cash is unnecessary. One does not even need to carry a physical ID card, as a digital version stored on one’s smartphone suffices.

In China today, the leather wallet business has become extinct, and it is now limited to export.

I agree that it works well for China. Obviously China ensures great safeguards and its probably in a great economic position where petty crime is not that much and the internet/wide availability of wifi in China is great these days,

However we're talking about this implemented in a country like Pakistan where economy is terrible (for whatever reasons), people are poor, and there is rampant petty crime (snatching of cellphone and purses, pickpocketing, looting at gunpoint)........imagine u have everything in your phone and it gets stolen.......people cannot afford to buy a new phone right away or a similar one due to costs......they got one somehow but its not easily replaceable.
Vast areas of Pakistan even in urban cities are still not good in wifi or data services by telecom widely available......its throttled everytime a foreign guest comes visiting (SECURITY) or some cricket matches or some stupid political protest or clashes......
We can't even fully depend on internet/data services even for Schools due to frequent hydro/electric and telecom outages.......so this is not really feasible and is poorly thought out and being forced to implement........

Not to mention, the people resisted.....i remember during covid I got that special RDA (initiative of Imran Khan) i finally got a bank account in Pak,,,,,,,,,and wanted to use it to buy stuff from a store.......guess what. I used it once forcing the shopkeeper to activate/turn-on his machine........and used it....
Next time in 2 days wanted to pay again with card.....he refused........excuse was oh the machine is out of order, please walk to the ATM and get me the cash! And this shopkeeper wasn't a poor guy but regular folk like me, had a good house and cars etc. Then there's the poor street food people who prefer cash and cant be bothered to have space or capacity for internet banking/payments. Theirs is all cash business.

I believe this is a way for the govt to tax the poor and middle class more

If they would just stop their corruptions, mismanagement, money-laundering and all that (using cash), we wouldnt need these extreme measures on ordinary folks.......

whatever little perks/benefits being offered right now to encourage card usage will disappear once this is fully implemented......thats for sure.