Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC)'s Commissioner Punjab Afzaal Bhatti on Thursday said the OPC intends to establish working relations with the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to facilitate expatriate Pakistanis regarding their investment plans.
While speaking at a meeting with the LCCI office bearers here on Thursday, he said that collaboration between the two institutions would help yield positive results. Overseas Pakistanis are real asset of the country and are playing a pivotal role in economic uplift of the country therefore Commission is working day and night to resolve their issues, he said. The Commission's Director General Javed Iqbal Bukhari was also present on the occasion.
Bhatti said that overseas Pakistanis have been facing immense problems, for instance family or property disputes, law and order concerns, settling down issues, employment hindrances. OPC is brainchild of the Punjab chief minister and is playing an efficient role to facilitate the overseas Pakistanis through redressing their complaints.
He said that expatriate Pakistanis can register their complaints from any part of the world through state-of-the-art web complaint portal while a 24/7 help line has also been established for those overseas Pakistanis who have no access to the internet. Commission has so far received about 7000 complaints during the last two years, out of which 50 percent have been resolved, he added.
The LCCI President Abdul Basit said the labour class overseas Pakistanis are facing more challenges than the professionals therefore Commission should evolve special policies for labor class. The agent mafia causes huge financial losses to the innocent expatriates, he said. Commission should convince the overseas Pakistanis to invest in Pakistan that could help country get rid of the undue borrowings. Earlier Director General OPC Javed Iqbal Bukhari gave a detailed presentation and threw light on the services and achievements of the department.
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