Steps afoot to further improve Pak missions' services delivery in Gulf countries: Sherry Rehman.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman on Tuesday informed the Senate that the government had taken multiple steps to improve consular and welfare services delivery to the expatriates by Pakistan Missions in Gulf countries.

On a query during question hour, she said a dedicated approach had been adopted to bring procedural improvements, organizational, restructuring and improvement in the service delivery by Pakistan Missions.

She said that all issues were followed up with local governments which yielded positive results for the Pakistani community living abroad.

She further said Pakistan mission in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had an automated Machine-Readable Passport section where all passport related services were provided.

On weekends, the mission regularly sent consular teams to the community and the missions continued to take up the case of Haroob/Expired Iqama with the Saudi authorities for their earliest proceedings, she said.

She said as regards non-payment of salaries by the sponsoring Kafeels/companies, the same were taken up with the local authorities Khuli-Kachehri, zoom meetings.

She said that facebook live, 24/7 facilitation center, modern Queue Management System and android application were other initiatives that have been launched to help facilitate community members.

The Minister said in the UAE, the mission took up the matter with the host government as well as the concerned companies to resolve the problems of the Pakistani community.

In Bahrain, Mission held regular meetings with the Ministry of labour and Social...