Twelve foreign recruitment firms blacklisted in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment (BEOE) has barred 12 foreign recruiting firms from hiring Pakistani workforce due to non-compliance with employment code, resulting in grave problems for the emigrants.

The bureau, working under the auspices of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, has blacklisted 12 foreign recruiting companies during the current year for not ensuring the promised jobs, timely and agreed salaries, besides issuance of fake visas, a top official from BEOE told media.

The official said six recruitment agencies from Azerbaijan and three each from Iraq and Oman had been barred from recruiting Pakistani manpower after a thorough examination of complaints received from the affectees and the country’s community welfare attaches.

The blacklisted firms included Shah International F/S LLC, Nazar Motors LLC, Lardak LLC, ACV 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.