Foreign Office Terms Fake Reports Of City-Specific UAE Visa Ban On Pakistanis:
Foreign Office Terms Fake Reports Of City-Specific UAE Visa Ban On Pakistanis
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson today denied reports that the UAE had banned/blacklisted residents of certain cities and not issued visas.
“We have seen the reports. We can confirm that no such ban is in place by UAE for issuance of visas to Pakistani citizens,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated on Monday.
The Foreign Office spokesperson responded to the questions of journalists over news UAE ban on certain cities in Pakistan.
The FO spokesperson said that there was no truth in the media reports and Pakistan were getting UAE visas as per routine.
Earlier, the UAE Consulate General in Karachi Bakheet Ateeq Al Remeithi also dispelled the reports of any ban on visas for Pakistan.
In a statement issued today, Bakheet Aateeq Al Remeithi, the Consulate General of the UAE in Karachi said that the reports are totally baseless and fake.
He said the UAE authorities did not impose any visa restrictions on Pakistan and it was merely a propaganda on the social and digital media in Pakistan.
The UAE Consul General responded to reports that Emirates was not giving visas to Pakistani who belong to Abbottabad, Attock, Bajaur Agency, Chakwal, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan, Hangu, Hunza, Quetta, Kasur, Kohat, Kotli, Khushab, Khurrum Agency, Larkana, Mohmand Agency, Muzaffargarh, Nawabshah, Parachinar, Sahiwal, Sargodha, Sheikhupura, Skardu and Sukkur.
Some social media users are sharing a poster, asking people to not apply if they belong to any of the cities quoted above.
Remeithi said that Pakistani citizens can get visit or any other available UAE visas.
He said that he himself was personally issuing visas to the citizens born/residing in the cities mentioned in the fake posts.
The UAE Consul General said that Pakistanis can get visas for UAE from Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi.
