OPC hand over 22 houses to owners

Official points out that property transfer remains incomplete due to stalled payments

LAHORE: Twenty-two houses in a housing society, worth Rs60 million, have been handed over to the owners by the Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) Punjab. OPC Vice Chairperson Shaheen Khalid Butt and Commissioner Afzaal Bhatti handed over the possession letters to the owners in a ceremony held on Friday. OPC Director General Javed Iqbal Bokhari also attended the ceremony. Speaking on the occasion, Bhatti said that overseas Pakistanis had booked their houses in the housing society about a decade ago, but despite full payment, the properties were not hande over to them. On the complaints of some of the owners, the OPC provided houses to the affected owners. Butt said that prior to this, on the initiative of the OPC, about 170 houses and plots in the housing society, worth Rs600 million, have also been handed over to the owners in four phases. A large number of overseas Pakistanis attended the event.  

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2018.