PM Imran lauds overseas Pakistanis role, announces to introduce new schemes

JEDDAH: Appreciating the role of about nine million overseas Pakistanis in the prosperity of the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced to introduce more schemes for expatriates.

Addressing a gathering of the Pakistani community in a ceremony held here in connection with Roshan Digital Account in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, PM Imran said the government will provide all possible assistance to foreign missions to facilitate expatriates in different countries.

Appreciating the role of overseas Pakistanis in the prosperity of the country, he said, they possessed huge potential and had been the biggest asset. PM Imran said their potential was not fully tapped and no efforts were made in the past to pursue them to invest in the country.

The Prime Minister asserted that the Roshan Digital Account was a big step for overseas Pakistanis to participate in nation-building. He also emphasized the need to create suitable conditions for the overseas Pakistanis so that they can work for the development of the country.

For the first time in the country’s history, the overseas Pakistani able to remotely open an account through an entirely digital and online process without any need to visit a bank branch, embassy, or consulate, he said.

The government was making efforts to further offer the overseas Pakistanis different products like Roshan digital account because the world was changing at a fast pace with the use of the latest technology, he mentioned.

Prime Minister Imran while lauding the leadership of Saudi Arabia that always supported Pakistan in the most difficult times said that Saudi Arabia is a long-standing friend of Pakistan. He said that his recent visit has strengthened the relations between brotherly countries.

Pakistan would have been in crisis if friendly countries had not helped. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates helped Pakistan in difficult times, he observed.

Imran Khan said that the struggle continued for that Naya Pakistan which had been envisioned by its founder Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and which must have been realized many years back. Due to his government’s efforts for Naya Pakistan, the country was rightly back on track and on a path to its real destiny, he added.

The prime minister said that the country was passing through a decisive moment and the struggle against corrupt mafia and status quo would succeed soon, leading to Naya Pakistan, adding that his government’s struggle was driven mainly for the establishment of rule of law in the country.

“It is a decisive moment, the old status quo and a mafia were resisting and trying to save themselves. But public supported my party and the government in the struggle for rule of law,” he added.

The prime minister observed that the difference in societies was based upon–the one which had rule of law and the other governed by ‘might is right.’

The system based upon humanity survived and ensured prosperity whereas the rule of jungle led to nowhere, he said. “Those nations prospered where there is rule of law and justice,” the PM stressed.

The corrupt elements had been united in their efforts to save their skins, he said, adding that no one can prevent this change, due to public awareness. Social media has brought a change as the information travels very fast. The youth and social media have been the main ingredients of our party’s success,” he opined.

The country’s economy was being stabilized as they had passed through the most difficult times with consistent strengthening of its reserves, Imran Khan said. After the Covid plague, the prime minister said, the delicate economies were devasted internationally, adding in India daily caseloads were increasing at an alarming level.

Pakistan was among the few countries, which had navigated in the Covid scenario with much difficulty, the prime minister said, adding, Pakistan’s exports were on the rise and the economy had recovered.

The economic indicators of the country were showing improvement, the PM said, adding that the Construction industry was providing jobs and the low-cost housing imitative would provide housing facilities to low-income groups.

About his visit, the prime minister lauded the leadership of Saudi Arabia that always supported Pakistan in the most difficult times.

They supported Pakistan and provided oil on deferred payment, similarly, the United Arab Emirates also supported the country, otherwise, Pakistan would have defaulted, entailing severe consequences, he observed.