Pakistan
Over 800,000 workers sent abroad for employment opportunities: Turi
The Minister for Overseas says he said they were also finalizing agreements with sixteen to eighteen countries for export of their manpower. He said they weredoing future planning to ensure legal export of manpower.
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Islamabad: Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Sajid Hussain Turi on Monday said that about eight hundred and fifty thousand workers were sent abroad over the last one year for better employment opportunities.
Addressing an event at National Press Club in Islamabad on Monday in connection with the World Labor Day, he said they were also finalizing agreements with sixteen to eighteen countries for export of their manpower. He said they weredoing future planning to ensure legal export of manpower.
Sajid Hussain Turi stated the government has also taken various steps for the welfare of the workers. He said we are planning to establish a University in the federal capital where free of cost education will be provided to the children of workers. He said we have also enhanced the death compensation.
Speaking on the occasion, President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Afzal Butt stressed for united efforts to address the problems of all the workers associated with different professions including the media industry.
He said we have achieved some successes vis-a-vis the protection of rights of workers. He was appreciative of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb for appointing the Chairman of Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (ITNE), which, he said, is addressing problems of media workers.
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