Illegal Occupation: OPC recovers properties worth Rs70m

OPC is a flagship initiative of the visionary Punjab chief minister

LAHORE: As many as 13 properties of expatriate Pakistanis, worth Rs70 million have been retrieved from illegal occupants by the Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) Punjab during the last week. This was stated by OPC Commissioner Afzaal Bhatti in a departmental meeting held on Wednesday. Director General Syed Javed Iqbal Bokhari and other senior officers attended the meeting, says a press release. He said that properties situated in Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Sialkot and Chiniot Districts were under illegal occupation. The OPC with the help of relevant District Overseas Pakistanis Committees (DOPCs) got the properties vacated and handed over to their owners. He added that the OPC was a flagship initiative of the visionary Punjab chief minister and was one window operation for the resolution of complaints of overseas Pakistanis.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 28^th, 2017.