Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis was informed on Tuesday that employees of Workers Welfare Board (WWB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are not getting their salaries in time and this is also affecting the study of students. A meeting of the committee was held here in the Parliament House under Chairmanship of Senator Baz Muhammad Khan. The committee was informed that salary of the first quarter to the employees was given in October last because the money for the salaries was not received in time from Ministry of Finance.
The committee chairman directed that employees of Workers Welfare Boards in all the provinces should be paid their salaries in time and a permanent solution to the issue should be hammered out. The committee members were also informed that illegal residents are occupying residential quarters in plots allotted to the industrial units.
The committee chairman said that the plots which are allotted to an industrial unit have become sole property of the industrial owner and he is mandated to give residence to his employees there. Senator Rehman Malik said the issue should be handed over to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for further investigation. The committee chairman, however, directed the relevant authorities to submit a detailed report on illegal occupants of residences in industrial units across the country to the committee in the next meeting.
About a Pakistani languishing in an Indonesian jail, the committee directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister to take up the issue with the relevant authorities on basis of humanitarian grounds and bring the condemned prisoner back in Pakistan as soon as possible.
The committee was informed that panels of lawyers are being set up in all consulates and embassies to help Pakistanis in their legal issues abroad, besides setting up special funds for community welfare centers.
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