"Pakistan in talks with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar to rehabilitate unemployed Pakistanis," 7 Aug 2020

Pakistani government has initiated the efforts to rehabilitate Pakistani workers who lost their jobs in the Gulf due to Coronavirus...

[if] successful, the employment of 25,000 to 30,000 workers in middle eastern countries will be secured...

According to senior officials at the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis, government-level talks are underway with companies in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar to rehabilitate unemployed Pakistanis who have not been able to return home...

Companies have been asked to re-employ workers at a lower salary instead of sending them back so that they do not have to pay for visas again when conditions improve.