Commissioner Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) Punjab Afzaal Bhatti has said that OPC is striving for the welfare of overseas Pakistanis and so far, half of the received complaints have been settled. Presiding over a departmental meeting he said that on the initiative of OPC Punjab, several federal government institutions including NAB, Ombudsman secretariat and Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) have nominated their focal persons to co-ordinate with OPC.
He told that joint collaboration of OPC and these agencies would help solve the issues faced by the overseas Pakistanis relating to federal ministries, divisions and institutions. Afzaal Bhatti said that with a view to early redress the complaints pertaining to federal government, OPC Punjab has developed close and continuous liaison with federal government agencies.
The enhanced co-operation with these important institutions would provide better service-delivery to the Pakistanis living abroad. He said that co-operation between OPC and other federal govt institutions would yield positive results regarding solution of the grievances of overseas Pakistanis. It was decided that OPC would refer the complaints of overseas Pakistanis, about federal government, to the OPF, where a designated cell would take up and expedite the redressal process. It was also reviewed different complaints of overseas Pakistanis and issued necessary instructions to the quarters concerned to solve them at the earliest.