ISLAMABAD: Netherlands Queen Maxima arrived in Pakistan for a three-day visit as the UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development.
According to Radio Pakistan, during the visit, the queen will call on the president and the prime minister, besides engagements with a range of stakeholders from the public and private sectors.
During her stay, the queen will hold talks with international development partners, representatives of the fintech sector, State Bank Governor Reza Baqir, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Abdul Hafeez Shaikh and NADRA Chairman Usman Mubin.
She is also expected to meet President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Queen Maxima will also be present at the launch of the Micropayments Gateway. It is a central bank initiative to reduce the cost of small payments in order to stimulate digital payments, in particular for people in poverty situations.
She will visit a project developed with the CEO Partnership for Economic Inclusion. In Lahore, the queen will look in on a number of projects that focus on digital financial services that, among other things, contribute to the development of entrepreneurs.
She is engaged worldwide in promoting access of individuals and enterprises to financial services at a reasonable cost with the aim of improving economic and social development opportunities. Queen Maxima had earlier visited Pakistan in February 2016.
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