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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Overseas Pakistanis should benefit from PRI Scheme - Dr Farooq Sattar

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MQM Leader and Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr Farooq Sattar, who is currently on an official visit to Canada, urged the overseas Pakistanis to avail the PRI facility to send their remittances to Pakistan.

The Government has launched the Pakistan Remittance Initiatives (PRI) scheme in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, State Bank and the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and the overseas Pakistanis should use this facility, he said while addressing a gathering of the overseas Pakistani business community in Toronto. The Minister said that the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis is working on various projects for the welfare of overseas Pakistanis stating the new OPF schools are being established to cater the Educational needs of the children of overseas Pakistanis. Plots would be allotted to the overseas Pakistanis through the OPF housing schemes in Mirpur and Lahore aswell as in order to benefit from the experience and expertise of overseas Pakistanis, a bill has been prepared by the MOP that would allow the reservation of seats for the overseas Pakistanis in the national assembly as well as in four Provincial assemblies. One seat in the National Assembly out of the four proposed seats, would be reserved for the overseas Pakistanis of North America

Dr Farooq Sattar added that Overseas Pakistanis must play their role in the development of Pakistan and for the welfare of its countrymen. During the month of August and September, $800 million remittances were recieved under the PRI scheme.

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