{"id":15317,"date":"2025-12-12T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/12\/advancing-overseas-facilitation-gtec\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:30:59","slug":"advancing-overseas-facilitation-gtec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/12\/advancing-overseas-facilitation-gtec\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Overseas Facilitation with GTEC Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Islamabad on December 12, 2025, <strong>Mazhar Thathal<\/strong>, Chairman and CEO of the Global Trade Expo Centre Pakistan, met with Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis <strong>Ch. Salik Hussain<\/strong> to discuss steps to streamline services for overseas citizens and international visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The minister reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to improving support for overseas Pakistanis and announced the deployment of dedicated ministry officers at major airports working jointly with the Ministry of Interior and the FIA to ensure smooth, transparent and efficient services. These measures are aimed at reinforcing Overseas Facilitation at arrival and departure points and enhancing the visitor experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mazhar Thathal<\/strong> outlined GTEC\u2019s international initiatives and delegation programmes, and invited the minister to participate in the upcoming Pakistan USA Trade and Business Delegation to promote investment ties. Mr. <strong>Liaqat Ali Thathal<\/strong>, Director International Trade &#038; Relationship at GTEC, briefed the minister on emerging international trade opportunities and the facilitation required to attract foreign investment in priority sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The minister welcomed the briefing and expressed interest in further collaboration with GTEC to strengthen trade and investment outcomes. Both parties agreed to pursue coordinated efforts to build stronger international partnerships and deliver improved services and support for overseas Pakistanis and global business stakeholders, with a continued focus on practical Overseas Facilitation measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overseas Facilitation gains momentum as GTEC and Federal Minister deploy airport officers and plan Pakistan USA trade delegation to boost investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}