Expatriate gets house ownership rights

LAHORE: After the intervention of Punjab Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC), an expatriate Pakistani has gotten ownership right and documents of a house worth Rs9.2million.

OPC Commissioner Afzaal Bhatti informed the media that Muhammad Zaheer, settled in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, filed a complaint with OPC that he had bought a house in Mahaal Pakki Kotli, District Sialkot for Rs9.2 million. Despite the payment to previous owner, documents and ownership rights of the house had not been transferred to him.



This complaint was referred to District Overseas Pakistanis Committee (DOPC), Sialkot for further proceedings. After the efforts of DOPC members, the overseas Pakistani got the ownership rights and documents of the house. Afzaal Bhatti said that on the special instructions of Chief Minster Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, OPC was vigorously pursuing the complaints of Overseas Pakistanis and solving them on priority basis.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 8^th, 2017.