Pakistani passport issuance halted due to shortage of lamination paper

• Due to the exhaustion of lamination paper printing, passport printing has stopped.
• The backlog of passports has reached $5,000,000 in a week.
• The backlog of passports is expected to reach 1 million in the next two weeks.

Islamabad: The work of printing passports has stopped due to the exhaustion of lamination paper, which has raised the issue of passports across the country, Bol News reported.

According to details, the sources say that the backlog of passports has reached 5,000,000 in a week, and 20 to 25 thousand new passports and renewal applications are coming each day.

However, Interior Ministry sources claim that the lamination paper has been ordered and it will take a week to reach Pakistan, while it will take another week to clear the lamination paper from customs.

The Ministry of Home Affairs further says that the backlog of passports is expected to reach 1 million in the next two weeks, and it may take more than a month to end this crisis.

It should be noted that due to the extraordinary rush in the number of passport makers in passport offices across the country, the work of making passports is delayed.

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