Due to the intervention of Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) Punjab, as many as 15 Properties of expatriate Pakistanis, worth Rs 57 million have been got retrieved from the illegal occupants during the last week. This was informed by Vice Chairperson OPC, Shaheen Khalid Butt while presiding over the weekly meeting of officers.

Chairman Public Facilitation Committee OPC Sajid Chaudary, DG Syed Javed Iqbal Bokhari, Additional DG Agha Yousaf, Directors Raja Zubair, Ishrat Ullah Niazi and others seniors officers attended the meeting. Shaheen Khalid Butt saidd that the properties situated in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Okara, Jhelum, Rawalpindi and Chiniot Districts were under illegal occupation.

OPC with the help of relevant District overseas Pakistanis Committees (DOPCs) got the said properties vacated and handed over to their owners. Shaheen Khalid Butt further said that OPC is vigorously pursuing the issues of Overseas Pakistanis and so far half of the received complaints of expatriates have been settled.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017