Next big challenge to replace debit, credit card with mobile payment: Fawad Chaudhry
Taking to Twitter on Monday, he said it is important to make payments easier for technological advancement.
Islamabad (Pakistan Point News – 27th May, 2019) Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday launched Pakistan's first official Moon-sighting website and lunar calendar.
Following the lunar Calendar which is being termed as his achievement, he said the next big challenge is to replace debit and credit cards with mobile payments.
Taking to Twitter on Monday, he said it is important to make payments easier for technological advancement.
He vowed that within the next few months, all of the payments, from paying bus fare to buying a car, will be made through mobile phone.
Ever since Fawad Chaudhry assumed the portfolio of minister of science and technology, he has been coming up with new projects.
He launched a lunar calendar, prepared with the help of experts, that includes important dates from 2019 till 2024.
According to the five-year lunar calender, this year's Eid will be on June 5. The next four Eids would be on May 24, 2020, May 3, 2021, April 22, 2022 and April 10, 2023.
Ch Fawad said that the online portal, comprising both website and mobile application, could help people check the position of moon, adding that the calendar would end the moon-sighting controversies once and for all.
He said that the calendar would not diminish the role of religious scholars, adding that the latest technology should be used for important issues like moon-sighting.
The application was prepared with feedback from experts of the meteorological department and Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), he said and added that the application would be available from Monday on the Google play store.
Through this application, moon's existence over eight strategic locations would be mapped, he added.
The proposal has been sent to the Council of Islamic Ideology and it would also be presented before the federal cabinet on Tuesday.
He also announced that August would be declared as the Science and Technology Month.