Kuwait City (Web Desk): Kuwaiti government on Tuesday lifted a ban on visas for Pakistani citizens after six years.
According to local media, the decision regarding visa ban lift was taken during a meeting between PM Nawaz Sharif, who is in Kuwait on an official visit, and Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the Amiri Diwan in Kuwait City.
The two countries also decided to collaborate and establish a joint council for business. Alongside, both the countries will work jointly in five different fields.
According to the Gulf News, Kuwait banned nationals from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from entering the country in 2011. The ban includes suspending all tourism, visit and trade visas as well as visas sponsored by spouses, immigration.
The visa ban was imposed due to the “difficult security conditions in the five countries” and to “the remarkably increasing tendency of nationals from the five countries to apply for visas to bring in relatives who faced or could face arrest by the local authorities to Kuwait.”