The Foreign Office of Pakistan after an alleged visa scandal, has ordered embassies of Pakistan in European nations not to issue visas to Afghan citizens till further order. The following reports have been made by the Pakistan-based ARY News.
The step by the ministry came following an alleged scandal of the issuance of visas of Pakistan to 1,600 Afghan nationals on fake residential cards of Sweden.
Earlier, it was also learned that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan had launched an inquiry into the issuing of visas to 1,600 Afghans by the Pakistan mission in Europe on fake residence cards of Sweden.
Following the news that broke out, the foreign office have taken notice of the issue as well as ordered an immediate inquiry, asking Pakistani missions abroad to stop issuance of visas of any category to Afghan nationals until additional orders.
Notably, the foreign ministry also ordered the cancellation of the visas that were granted to the Afghans.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan-based news agency Pajhwok Afghan News recently made reports that Pakistan’s military forces torture & harass Afghans who travel via the Spin Boldak-Chaman gate.
At the same time, passengers traveling to Pakistan added the Pakistani forces misbehave with them, keep them waiting for several hours on different pretexts, and extort them.
Majority of these travelers are residents of Chaman, Quetta, along with other areas on the other side of the Durand Line and Kandahar.
Ismail told Pajhwok Afghan News that, “Difficulties had never ended on this road, but the atrocities rise to the level where 1 feels hopeless. The people of Pakistan harass people, insult them, delay them for hours, mercilessly beat them, and force them into paying money.”