Shaikh said that Pakistan dispatched around 1,000 workers to Korea. ILLUSTRATION: JAMAL KHURSHID
A batch of 60 selected Pakistani workers was undergoing pre-departure training in Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) and was expected to leave Pakistan within a week.
OEC Managing Director Saeed Ahmed Shaikh said that the workers will leave the country by different flights. Shaikh informed that a total of 579 workers had been sent to the Republic of Korea in the first half of the calendar year 2013.
He said that the workers were employed by small and medium enterprises at a monthly salary ranging $1,200-1,500, apart from reimbursement of food and living expenses by the employer. Shaikh said that Pakistan dispatched around 1,000 workers to Korea, adding that the figure will be increased by reducing the number of illegal Pakistani workers in Korea.
The project, under the Employment Permit System (EPS), was helping Pakistani workers to earn a respectable livelihood while ensuring a sizeable foreign remittance to Pakistani economy.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 18th, 2013.
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@Umer: i m an overseas pakistani myself (the ones sit in comfortable couch and think they have all the pain of nation :D) my point is, sending people out is not the solution, its the problem. in pakistan, u cant find a single professional tile fitter, our machenics are causing hundreds of deaths on road accidents, our engineers are building bridges on old technologies. need to bring overseas pakistanis with world class expertise
@roadkashehzada:
What brain drain buddy? There is no brain to drain. It’s the Koreans who have brains and they have turned their extremely poor, war ridden country into one of the best countries in the world in terms of quality of life. Might as well go there and learn something.
indian was also worried at one time of brain drain but now see the good work of NRIs. and moreover these are labours not engineer, doctors who are surplus in Pakistan. This dept should send them too
@roadkashehzada pakistan should send more and more people out, at the moment this is the only thing which is paying off in shape of remittances and its benefit of pakistan as well, will decrease the population and will give the ppl left in pakistan to find the jobs.
look at the focus of overseas pakistanis department, sending people out of the country, contributing brain drain instead of creating opportunities for skilled pakistani expatriates to come back and serve pakistan. doesnt make sense.