Overseas Pakistani Friends

As each and every successive government, president, prime minister, chief minister, minister and whosoever worth of his slat during the last 20 years is raising slogan to make Karachi another Hong Kong, likewise each of the above during the last 15 years has invented rhetoric that the Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) were the real Ambassadors of [...]

Shaukat Tarin, Federal Minister for Finance said on Tuesday that strategic alliance between Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI) and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) would contribute towards enhancement of remittance flows through official channels and help the Government to achieve the goal of formalizing the remittance market in the country.Addressing a MoU signing ceremony between PRI and [...]

 
* FBR chief warns chronic non-taxpayers to pay their due tax by 31st

By Sajid Chaudhry
ISLAMABAD: The government is considering to launch a new scheme for overseas Pakistanis to encourage them to invest in Pakistan.
Federal Board of Revenue Chairman (FBR) Sohail Ahmed stated this while addressing the business community at the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce [...]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has introduced an online facility for overseas Pakistanis in order to get their SIMs data regularised or to block extra SIMs/connections issued against their Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).

Minister says about 2,000 housing plots ready for expatriates housing project
Abu Dhabi: About 2,000 plots of land in three Pakistani cities have been allotted for an overseas Pakistanis’ housing project, a Pakistani Federal Minister told Gulf News in Abu Dhabi.

Overseas Pakistanis extend full support to Pakistan’s challenges
DUBAI: The first session of Overseas Pakistanis Forum, organised by Pakistan’s Ambassador at large Javed Malik and chaired by Federal Minister for overseas Pakistanis Dr Farooq Sattar concluded here on a high note with the overseas Pakistani community expressing their full support to their homeland in these challenging [...]

By Mansoor Ahmad
LAHORE: National Bank of Pakistan is among five leading global banks which have been granted permission to open a branch in Saudi Arabia which has kept a ban on entry of foreign banks for the last 25 years.

ISLAMABAD: The first session of overseas Pakistanis Forum, will be held on December 6, 2009 in Dubai for establishing sound business linkages between Pakistani manufacturers and expatriate Pakistani businessmen.
Pakistan’s Ambassador at Javed Malik is organising the forum, which will be chaired by the Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, Dr Farooq Sattar.

Threatening the media is a certain indicator of people losing their sleep and mind over their own plight. It also proves that their very large and wider financial interests are at stake. They have a hidden and black agenda. Their own conscience is being awakened by such pricking reports, and they need to let it hibernate during their reign of false power and terror.

While, in the current perspective, Nidal’s actions are condemnable to say the least, a cause and effect analysis of another incident in Orlando, Florida, says what! People can go berserk, no matter what their religion, when they feel belittled and betrayed for some reasons.