Iraq and Pakistan discuss the mechanism of granting entry visas

Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers Hamid Al-Ghazi and Pakistani Ambassador Ahmed Amjad Ali discussed today, Monday, the mechanism for granting entry visas to Pakistani citizens to visit the holy shrines. 

The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, Hamid Naim Al-Ghazi, received today, Monday, in his official office, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Baghdad, Ahmed Amjad Ali." 

Al-Ghazi pointed out that "the Iraqi government seeks to develop relations especially in the economic field in the future between Iraq and Pakistan." 

The two sides discussed setting up a mechanism for granting entry visas to Pakistani citizens to visit the holy shrines, and controlling the exploitation by some of the entry visa for religious tourism for work purposes inside Iraq, in addition to taking official diplomatic procedures to open a Pakistani consulate in Najaf Governorate. 

The Pakistani ambassador praised "the success of the parliamentary elections that took place in Iraq recently," stressing "the Pakistani government's support for the next Iraqi government, and opening up prospects for joint cooperation in all fields."