Credit card transaction worth $17.8m failed for telethon flood collection

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Pakistani banks have failed to secure Credit card transactions worth 17.8 million dollars meant for telethon flood collection by former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan had appealed overseas to raise funds during a telethon conference for flood victims.

Khan had nominated Dr Sania Nishtar as coordinator to collect funds.

Dr Sania Nishtar in a tweet said that they had collected 3.8 million dollars under the flood telethon collection held by Imran Khan.

Since Aug 29, which is when the first flood fund collection telethon was held by @ImranKhanPTI we have received $3.8846M through credit card transactions. However $17.874M worth of credit card transactions failed, which is alarming. @StateBank_Pak may kindly look into this snag

— Senator Dr Sania Nishtar (@SaniaNishtar) September 15, 2022

However, credit card transactions worth 17.8 million dollars had failed which was alarming.

She had appealed State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to look into the matter urgently.