{"id":34778,"date":"2025-08-31T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34778\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:39:19","slug":"capital-inches-towards-cashless-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34778\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital inches towards cashless transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                         <strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\n                                        ISLAMABAD: <\/p>\n<p>        <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has announced plans to transform Islamabad into Pakistan&#8217;s first cashless city, making QR code-based digital payments mandatory at all businesses and public transaction points. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by CDA Member Administration and Estate, Talat Mehmood, at CDA Headquarters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the move is part of the government&#8217;s broader vision, under the Prime Minister&#8217;s directive, to promote a cashless economy and enhance transparency, efficiency, and ease of doing business in the federal capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All types of businesses, from large retailers to small fruit vendors and even taxi services, will be required to display QR codes at their premises,&#8221; Talat Mehmood stated, emphasising that Islamabad should serve as a &#8220;model and exemplary city&#8221; for the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The CDA said a formal notification will soon be issued in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has announced plans to transform Islamabad into Pakistan&#8217;s first cashless city, making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,19,17,2896,279,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-34778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}