The wish to leave Pakistan and settle abroad is on the rise as 65 lakh passports have been issued in the year 2023, this was told by Mustafa Jamal Qazi, the Director-General of Passports Pakistan.
While visiting the passport office in Karachi, he told the officials that the issuance of e-passports would become mandatory from the year 2027. He said that all necessary arrangements were being finalized in this regard.
DG Passports further said the process was underway to switch from the current system of machine-readable passports to e-passports. He said that a new system would be installed in this regard in the next six to seven months, and afterward the service of e-passports would become mandatory from 2027.
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He said a top-level task force had been probing into the issue of 12,000 Pakistani passports allegedly issued to Afghan nationals.
Qazi claimed that the issue of delay in the issuance of Pakistani passports had been resolved. He said the government had procured a sufficient quantity of the lamination paper required for the printing of new passports. Afterward, the issuance of passports will become normalized in the country.
Via: The News
