Saudi-based Bin Laden Group, founded by the father of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, plans to hire 20,000 skilled workers from Pakistan for one of its projects in Jeddah.
Sajjad Anwar, general manager of the Bin Laden Group, told Mumtaz Akhtar Kahloon, Chairman of the National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (Navtec), here that his company needed 10,000 carpenters and an equal number of masons for a five-star hotel being built in Jeddah.
Anwar met the Navtec Chairman as part of a delegation of the Pakistan Investor Forum in Saudi Arabia. The delegation was led by Hajab Gul of the Organisation of Islamic Conference.
Kahloon assured the delegation that Navtec would train the workers at its vocational and technical institutions and prepare them as per the required standardised curricula and demand, the Dawn daily reported.