KSA agrees to increase Pakistan's labour quota in New Taif City mega project.

ISLAMABAD -- Saudi Arabia has agreed to a request by Pakistan for an increased share of the labor force in the multi-billion dollar New Taif City development.

'I asked the Saudi labor minister for a larger quota for Pakistani manpower in the New Taif City project,' said Sayed Zulfikar Bukhari Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, during an interview with Arab News.

'He has agreed and promised to set up a proper mechanism for this. The Saudi labor minister told me that Pakistani manpower will play a big part in the project, and that his leadership also asked for this,' Bukhari said.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have formed working groups to develop procedures for this transfer of manpower, added Bukhari, who will visit the Kingdom in the coming months to finalize the arrangements.

'The working group will first connect the (online recruitment) portals and then we will have numbers to process the manpower,' he said, adding that recent development initiatives undertaken by Saudi Arabia have generated a lot of economic activity and...