ISLAMABAD: Qatar on Friday opened a “Visa Facilitation Centre” in Islamabad to facilitate Pakistani work force in getting visa.
Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfikar Bukhari and Qatar’s Ambassador to Pakistan Saqar Bin Mubarak inaugurated the facilitation centre.
Talking to media on the occasion, Zulfikar Bukhari said Qatar has promised one hundred thousand jobs for the Pakistani workforce and the process in this regard has been initiated.
He said Pakistan is one of the eight countries to have a Qatari Visa Facilitation Centre for swift processing of workers’ visa.
He said the government is also in dialogue with Qatari officials to adjust the skilled labour force coming back from Saudi Arabia, in Qatar.
The Qatari ambassador on the occasion said that in the past, visa processing was handled by Qatar government but now applicants can get their visas processed and approved through the centre in Islamabad.
During a meeting between Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi last month, the former had offered 100,000 jobs for Pakistanis.