{"id":94047,"date":"2020-10-12T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94047"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:13:40","slug":"good-news-for-economy-as-foreign-remittances-rose-to-2-3-bln-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=94047","title":{"rendered":"Good news for economy\u2019 as foreign remittances rose to $2.3 bln: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 12 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said the country\u2019s foreign remittances from overseas Pakistanis jumped to $2.3 billion in September, terming it another \u201cgood news for economy\u201d despite the COVID-19 situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlhamdulillah, remittances from our hardworking overseas Pakistanis rose to $2.3 bn in Sept 2020, 31% higher than last Sept &#038; 9% higher than August 2020,\u201d the Prime Minister tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImranKhanPTI<\/a> tweeted about remittances sent by Overseas Pakistanis, which rose to $2.3 billion in September 2020, making it the 4th consecutive month of a $2 billion+ remittances figure.<\/p>\n<p>This is an increase of 31% over September 2019 and 9% over August 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q6bjNR5Mr5\">pic.twitter.com\/Q6bjNR5Mr5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Prime Minister&#39;s Office, Pakistan (@PakPMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PakPMO\/status\/1315534670499635200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe Prime Minister mentioned that this was the fourth consecutive month with remittances remained high above $2 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 12 (TNS): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said the country\u2019s foreign remittances from overseas Pakistanis jumped to $2.3 billion in September, terming it another \u201cgood news for economy\u201d despite the COVID-19 situation. \u201cAlhamdulillah, remittances from our hardworking overseas Pakistanis rose to $2.3 bn in Sept 2020, 31% higher than last Sept &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94048,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94047\/revisions\/94048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}