ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar has said that fourteen executive passport offices will be set up in the country this year.
He said that, with the inauguration of this office in Islamabad, we have accomplished another milestone in establishing a network of modern offices to facilitate the public.
The interior minister said that a number of NADRA mega offices will also become operational this year in all major cities. “By March 2017, each district will have its own passport office,” Chaudhary Nisar said.
He added that in 69 years of Pakistan’s history, a total of 94 passport offices were set up. But, during a short span of one and half years, our government is setting up 74 passport offices in the country.
He said this after inaugurating the executive passport office in Islamabad on Monday. Nisar said that it is wrong to link Islam with terrorism, adding that more than one billion Muslims live peacefully in the world but a handful of wayward people are negating the teachings of Islam.
He also said that Muslims suffer the most due to terrorism and they have scarified a lot against this curse. Replying to a question, he said that the visa restrictions imposed by the US will not affect terrorists.
