Facilitation: Airlines, banks to set up counters at embassies

Reservation desks to be set-up at embassy premises to facilitate repatriating community at competitive fares.

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan-based airlines are ready to establish their counters at Pakistani embassies in the United Arab Emirates to offer competitive fares to various cities of Pakistan.

The arrangements with respect to granting maximum facilitation to the amnesty seekers from Pakistan descent are comprehensively being arranged at the embassy, Ambassador of Pakistan to UAE Jamil Ahmed Khan said in a meeting held in Abu Dhabi.

Khan advised them to create reservation desks at the embassy premises to facilitate the repatriating community. He requested all the Pakistani airlines operating in the UAE to develop a favourable quote for the stranded Pakistanis who shall be availing amnesty during December 4 and February 3, 2013, and requested the banks to establish counters to facilitate remittance.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 27^th, 2012.