4.79m tokens redeemed: Fuel relief scheme registration reaches 5.9m mark

Business Recorder reported that registrations under the Prime Minister's Fuel Relief Scheme have passed 5.9 million, with 4,797,734 tokens redeemed so far. Shaza Fatima Khawaja, the federal minister for information technology and telecommunication, presented the figures on Friday during a joint briefing with Bilal Azhar Kayani, minister of state for finance and railways. Of the 6,189,568 tokens generated since launch, Punjab accounted for the largest share of redemptions.

Eligible vehicles include motorcycles, Qingqi vehicles and rickshaws, along with cars of up to 800cc engine capacity. A live dashboard showed province-wise numbers: Punjab at 3,076,185, Sindh at 1,216,266 and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at 267,460. Islamabad Capital Territory logged 210,032 redemptions, while Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan recorded smaller totals.

A 24/7 control room at the Ministry of IT and Telecommunication now tracks the scheme from registration and token generation through to redemption. The minister stressed a transparent, technology-enabled mechanism with the control room also handling complaints. Anyone with problems can ring 9771 or go to the scheme website, pmfuelrelief.pk, for assistance.