Directives to expedite overseas Pakistani housing developments

According to news from February 25, the Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, has told the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to speed up the building of homes for Pakistanis living abroad.

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The Finance Minister (FM) led a meeting to check on the progress of CDA’s development projects, especially the projects to build homes for Pakistanis who don’t live there. He told the CDA officials to move quickly on housing projects for Pakistanis who don’t live there. The minister asked the authority to use an online system to keep international standards and be open. Also, the people there were told that the government had started working on several short-term and medium-term housing projects for Pakistanis living abroad.

The source of the news said that the CDA said that one of the housing projects is almost done and that registration has begun. During the meeting, FM Dar talked about how important Pakistanis living abroad are to the country’s financial and economic growth. He told the government to do everything they could to get Pakistanis living abroad to invest in the country.