
New York,
The inauguration ceremony of NADRA Center held at Pakistan Consulate in New York. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was the chief guest on the occasion. The ceremony was also attended by Chairman Kashmir Committee Shehriyar Khan Afridi, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to UN Munir Akram, Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Asad Majeed and Consul General Ayesha Ali. Program began with recitation of Holy Quran.Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi inaugurated a new NADRA Center, Land Record Center and a new website at the New York Consulate to provides the Pakistani American community NICOP facility, Family Registration Certificate and Heritage Certificate.
While addressing the Pakistani community, Foreign Minister said that during Corona pandemic outbreak, record remittances sent to Pakistan from abroad for which the entire nation is grateful to all of you. Through Roshan Digital Pakistan project, Pakistanis sent a huge amount of $2 billion to Pakistan. Expatriates are the asset of Pakistan who silently serving Pakistan.
Pakistan provides full support to diplomatic staff and citizens of various countries in Kabul withdrawal process. But Sadly, Pakistan’s efforts have not been recognized. Pakistan hosted 3 million Afghan refugees for last four decades, Qureshi added.
FM also said that we are taking steps to make the voting system foolproof and to provide voters rights to 9 million Pakistani living in abroad.
The FM also launched “FM Portal” for abroad Pakistanis which was initially introduced in five countries, this will continue in the next phase, and are expanding this facility to 21 more countries.