President Dr Arif Alvi has urged Pakistanis living abroad to contribute more to the development and prosperity of their homeland by sharing their skills, knowledge and experience in the respective sectors. Speaking at a ceremony to honour the significant achievements of Pakistanis living abroad, he said that online platforms have made it simpler to exchange information without physically being present at the event.

The ceremony was attended by the Chairman of the Welfare Society for Overseas Pakistanis Rights, Dawood Ghaznavi, a large number of prominent overseas Pakistanis and others, according to a press release received by WealthPK.  

The president said, Pakistan urgently needs human resources that are educated, trained, refined, and highly productive since they are a fundamentally necessary component for assuring the success and prosperity of the country.

He called upon all stakeholders, government and private sector to take concrete and meaningful steps to create enabling conditions for the retention of productive human resources as the physical resources of a country remained unexploited due to a shortage of trained manpower in the past, which adversely impacted the development and progress of the country.

President Alvi said that he has been making efforts to get voting rights for overseas Pakistanis, which can easily be done with the help of technology, or I-voting.  He said that majority of overseas Pakistanis cannot opt for a postal ballot due to the laws of their host countries or could not physically travel to Pakistan for casting their votes. Therefore, a credible, verifiable and technology-based electronic voting system was the best possible solution, he added.

He said that the world was making progress by leaps and bound with the help of technology, but unfortunately, Pakistan is lagging behind in adopting technology. He called upon the stakeholders to continue deliberating upon the adoption of technology-based solutions to provide voting rights to overseas Pakistanis.

The president said that there was an increasing trend among overseas Pakistanis to resettle in Pakistan with a view to providing their children with acceptable social and cultural environments. This, he said, is a welcoming trend and should be leveraged to utilize their high-quality learning, knowledge and expertise to bring about marked improvement in the quality of our products and services.

He also called upon the government to take all necessary steps to adjust and employ qualified, educated, knowledgeable and high-quality human resources of Pakistan which are currently needed to catalyse growth and progress in all sectors of the country’s economy.

He further said that the dignity of Pakistan and its people would improve proportionally by uplifting the economic and financial outlook, improving the quality and quantity of trained and educated human resources, applying the law in a fair and just manner, creating transparent, verifiable and practical business processes and by bringing more transparency in the business transactions.

He acknowledged the valuable contributions of overseas Pakistanis towards strengthening the country’s economic and financial outlook by sending their hard-earned sizable remittances to Pakistan.

The president said that there are around 10 million Pakistanis living abroad and they all are ambassadors of Pakistan. He requested them to use formal banking channels for the transfer of remittances so that their hard-earned money can properly be used for the progress and development of the country.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-WealthPk