Saudi FM Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud meets Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad for talks on a range of issues including Covid-19 travel restrictions, conflicts in Kashmir, Palestine, Yemen and Afghanistan.
(AFP)
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have discussed how to ease Covid-19 travel restrictions,
which have stranded around 400,000 Pakistani expats back home,
foreign ministers of the two countries told reporters.
Both sides also spoke about multiple issues on Tuesday, agreeing to continue to work together on Kashmir, Palestine, Yemen and Afghanistan conflicts.
Islamabad took up the issue of Pakistani expats with Saudi Foreign Minister
Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud, who is on a one-day visit to
Pakistan.
Saud is the first high profile Saudi official to arrive
in Pakistan after fissures in their historically friendly ties earlier this year.
His Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a joint
news conference in Islamabad that around 400,000 of over two
million Pakistani expats in Saudi Arabia had been stranded at
home due to travel restrictions.
“They are facing challenges, you know the travel
restrictions and you know the issues of vaccination,” he said.
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