ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: The Senate’s standing committee on labour, manpower and overseas Pakistanis on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over export of manpower and directed the ministry concerned to take steps to ensure fairness of the process.

The committee in a meeting observed that manpower export was far bellow the actual potential. Members of the committee directed the ministry to redouble efforts to send abroad skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labourers and workers.

The committee said that every request received from abroad should be considered minutely and necessary homework should be completed before signing a memorandum of understanding to avoid trouble afterwards.

Senator Naeem Hussain Chatta presided over the meeting attended by Senator Enver Baig, Senator Raza Mohammad Raza, Senator Sahibzada Khalid Jan, federal Labour Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan and officials of the ministry.

They called for the processing of the demand for workers from South Korea and other countries keeping in view the labour laws of those countries.

The ministry must ensure that candidates selected for overseas jobs are medically fit.

Some members of the committee expressed concern that fraudulent overseas employment promoters were deceiving job-seekers. They said that highly misleading advertisements were placed in newspapers by such promoters and instructed that steps be taken to stop publication of such advertisements without prior permission.