Daily Daw International Reporter+ Dawn TV Report
Islamabad: Pakistan has sent 151,120 skilled workers to Gulf countries in the first three months of this year, and the largest number of them went to Saudi Arabia.
‘The report states that the highest number of Pakistanis, 121,970, went to Saudi Arabia, while 6,891 went to the United Arab Emirates, 8,331 to Oman, 12,989 to Qatar and 939 to Bahrain.’
The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and the Bureau of Immigration and Overseas Employment, a department affiliated with Human Resource Development, sent about 172,144 Pakistani workers to different countries in the first three months of this year.’
The report states that among the Pakistani workers going abroad, 38,274 are drivers, 3,474 technicians, 2,130 electricians, 1,859 masons, 1,689 cooks, 1,479 engineers, 1,058 welders, 849 doctors, 436 teachers and 390 nurses.
It was further reported that 1,454 workers went to the United Kingdom, 870 to Turkey, 815 to Greece, 775 to Malaysia, 592 to China, 350 to Azerbaijan, 264 to Germany, 257 to the United States, 109 to Italy and 108 to Japan.
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