News Paper: Business Recorder
ISLAMABAD (July 21 2010): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that government will take into confidence all the coalition partners regarding Pakistan-Afghan Transit Trade negotiations and Pakistan-US strategic dialogue. Pursuance of the reconciliatory approach, he said has strengthened the democratic process in the country and created a friction-less political milieu to pursue public welfare agenda.
The Prime Minister was talking to Dr Farooq Sattar, Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, who called on him at Prime Minister's Secretariat Tuesday afternoon. The Prime Minister, while acknowledging the contribution of millions of expatriates in the socio-economic development of Pakistan, asked the minister to evolve a unified policy for overseas Pakistanis to provide them facilities, commensurately to their sacrifices for the country.
The PM asked Dr Farooq to put a proposal for the right of vote for expatriates as well as allocation of seats in Senate and National Assembly to give representation to the overseas Pakistanis. These proposals should be discussed at appropriate forums taking all the coalition partners and stakeholders on board, he added. While discussing the issue of camel jockeys, Gilani instructed Dr Farooq to take up the issue with concerned authorities to check this abusive practice, providing relief to the affected children and their families. Earlier, Dr Farooq Sattar apprised the Prime Minister about the working of his ministry and also discussed projects taken up for the betterment of the expatriates
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The Prime Minister was talking to Dr Farooq Sattar, Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, who called on him at Prime Minister's Secretariat Tuesday afternoon. The Prime Minister, while acknowledging the contribution of millions of expatriates in the socio-economic development of Pakistan, asked the minister to evolve a unified policy for overseas Pakistanis to provide them facilities, commensurately to their sacrifices for the country.
The PM asked Dr Farooq to put a proposal for the right of vote for expatriates as well as allocation of seats in Senate and National Assembly to give representation to the overseas Pakistanis. These proposals should be discussed at appropriate forums taking all the coalition partners and stakeholders on board, he added. While discussing the issue of camel jockeys, Gilani instructed Dr Farooq to take up the issue with concerned authorities to check this abusive practice, providing relief to the affected children and their families. Earlier, Dr Farooq Sattar apprised the Prime Minister about the working of his ministry and also discussed projects taken up for the betterment of the expatriates
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