12 foreign recruitment firms barred from hiring Pakistani workers

Islamabad - The recruitment firms have been blacklisted for flouting rules.

Pakistan's Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BEOE) has barred twelve foreign recruiting firms from hiring Pakistani workforce due to non-compliance of employment code, resulting into grave problems for the emigrants.
Also read: Gulf jobs agency loses licence in Pakistan
The Bureau, working under the auspices of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, had blacklisted 12 foreign recruiting companies during current year for not ensuring the promised jobs, timely and agreed salaries, besides issuance of fake visas, a top official from BEOE told APP.
The official said six recruitment agencies from Azerbaijan and three from Iraq and Oman, each, had been barred from recruiting Pakistani manpower after thorough examination of complaints received from the affectees and the country's Community Welfare Attaches, The News reported.
The blacklisted firms included Shah International F/S LLC, Nazar Motors LLC, Lardak LLC, Ay Si Vi LLC, Arkuita LLC, Citizen Munawwar Latifi, Shirka Ardh Al-Muheet, Shirka Amwaj Ul-Bahar, Shirka Seeufue Ul-Badar, Catalyst Contract Trading Company Fourth Union Reconstruction LLC and Dar Ul Riyan International LLC - three Pakistan-based agencies including Ulfta Enterprises, Faith International operating in Rawalpindi and Al Wasio International, Lahore were also not allowed to run their businesses in the country.

• MENA
• Pakistan