ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said amounts under the Ramazan Relief Package were being transferred to the beneficiaries through a highly convenient and transparent digital wallet system and this model should be adopted for other government-run schemes.

Presiding over a meeting to review the Ramazan Relief Package, the prime minister said the package had been introduced across the country, without any discrimination and lauded the efforts of the State Bank of Pakistan, Nadra and tech institutions in ensuring transparency in the package.

The meeting was attended by Minis­ter for National Food Security Rana Ta­­nveer Hussain, Minister for Economic Affairs Ahad Khan Cheema, Minister for Information and Broad­cas­ting Atta­ullah Tarar, Minister for IT and Telecom Shaza Fatima, Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik, PM’s special assistant Haroon Akhtar, Nadra and PTA chairmen, relevant government offici­a­­ls, and representatives from private companies, PM Office’s Media Wing said in a press release.

The prime minister also directed a third-party audit of the Ramazan package and said the awareness campaign ran by telecom companies and banks regarding the package should be made more effective and a comprehensive report be prepared in this regard.

Published in Dawn, March 25th, 2025