The Punjab government has constituted Punjab Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) to resolve the problems of Pakistanis living abroad and the commission has been granted complete administrative and financial autonomy, said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while addressing the first meeting of the commission via video link.
OPC Commissioner Afzaal Bhatti gave a detailed briefing regarding the performance of the commission’s achievement so far. The meeting also gave approval to setting up a panel of lawyers to pursue the cases of deserving overseas Pakistanis while giving go ahead to give internship to students of universities for assisting overseas Pakistanis.
Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that Pakistanis living abroad have promoted the image of the country through their hard work and no one will be allowed to grab their properties. He said that justice will be provided to overseas Pakistanis through solving their problems. He directed that the commission should work efficiently and dedicatedly for addressing the complaints of Pakistanis living in foreign countries. He further directed that advisory councils comprising overseas Pakistanis be constituted at the earliest and overseas Pakistanis having good repute be included in these councils. He said that district committees have been set up in 36 districts of the province for resolving problems of overseas Pakistanis. He said that information technology will soon be introduced in the commission and speedy measures will be taken for redressing the grievances of expats.
He directed that prompt justice be ensured to overseas Pakistanis. He said that the commission should fully benefit from the latest technology. In response to the proposal of setting up overseas police centres, he directed that a plan be presented to him for its implementation. He said that a comprehensive mechanism be evolved for the effective follow up, monitoring and implementation of the measures taken for resolving problems of overseas Pakistanis, adding that he will review the performance of the commission on fortnightly basis.
OPC Vice Chairman Khalid Shaheen Butt, Additional Chief Secretary Capt (r) Mobeen, OPC Director General (District Police) Khawaja Dawood, OPC DG and authorities concerned attended the meeting.
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I appreciate Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif saheb for making " OPC " to resolve the problems of Pakistanis living abroad .
Is there any body monitoring that . Because I have registered the complaint No.295 on APRIL 19,2015 . But still waiting for speedy action .
Please take action on complaint according to the order of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Saheb .
Thanks.
WE welcome the framing of OPC. Anyhow, there must be a very clear procedure to resolve the complaint in a certain manner and necessarily in a certain period as well. When we asked an online operator to give us approximate time period for our complaint which we wanted to launch, she simply refused to give any schedule. That means, the OPC is going to going to be another name of a civil court.
While we appreciate the forming of this commission. I propose the following.
1- keeping in view the nature of the case, the Punjab government should introduce a system of reasonable but affordable charges for each type of case.
2-The funds so generated, must only be used for the speedy followup of the cases and finalizing of the cases within the predefined periods
The system in OPC Punjab is still to be streamlined as some departments such as Police Department do not work properly. They just do meetings and no original work on complaints. The red-tape is to be removed from OPC Punjab system otherwise there will be no difference in other departments and this commission. I lodged a complain in April 2015 and it is still not resolved.
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