INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has thanked the overseas Pakistanis for sending more remittances through banking channels.Imran Khan
turned to Twitter saying &I want to thank our overseas workers for sending more remittances through banking channels.&The Prime Minister
went on to say, &Remittances for the past fiscal year came in much higher at 9.7 % annual growth and totalled $21.8 bn for the year
This was much higher than the previous year when they grew only 2.9 %.&On Wednesday, according to State Bank of Pakistan, overseas Pakistani
workers remitted $21,841.50 million during FY19 showing a growth of 19.68% compared with $19,913.55 million received during the same period
in the preceding year.During June 2019, the inflow of worker remittances amounted to $1,650.52 million, which is 28.72% lower than May 2019
and 1.40% higher than June 2018.The country wise details for the month of June 2019 show that inflows from Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, UK, GCC
countries (including Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman) and EU countries amounted to $334 million, $356.03 million, $276.76 million, $268.97
million, $163.46 million and $52.49 million, respectively, compared with the inflow of $336.61 million, $345.31 million, $260.32 million,
$260.25 million, $163.53 million and $62.16 million, respectively, in June 2018.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the
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