ISLAMABAD – Japan will sign on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)with Pakistan for the import of skilled Pakistani manpower, during ameeting in Islamabad.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minster on Overseas Pakistanis and HumanResource Development Sayed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari made the announcementduring an online interactive session with the expatriates in Islamabad.
Back in October, both countries agreed to further negotiate on signing ofMoU for export of thousands of skilled labor from Pakistan to Japan. Japanhas decided to open the labor market in 14 different sectors, includingconstruction, nursing care, agriculture, manufacturing and lightengineering and other sectors.
Meanwhile, Japanese Ambassador Kuninori Matsuda said that three to sixmonths Japanese language proficiency course would be arranged in far flungareas of Pakistan so as to accommodate maximum number of Pakistanis to workin Japan.
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The ambassador has earlier said that Japan intended to attract up to500,000 blue-collar workers from all over the world to Japan over fiveyears by 2025 and further enhance this by 2030.
This law, which took effect in April of this year, creates two newcategories of visas for blue-collar workers in 14 sectors as Japan wasfacing labor crunch. Yusuke Shindo said that new VISA policy for immigrantlabor would come to an effect from April 1st of this year, creates two newcategories of visas including visas for blue-collar workers and low techlabor workers in 14 sectors that face a labor crunch.
