ISLAMABAD: Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has accepted President Arif Alvi’s invitation to visit Pakistan, Alvi’s office said in a statement on Monday, with the details of the trip yet to be finalized.
The Pakistani president said the emir of Kuwait had written a letter, expressing “satisfaction over the strong ties between Pakistan and Kuwait and reiterated his commitment to further expand relations in all fields for the mutual interest.”
Sheikh Nawaf’s letter follows Kuwait’s decision to lift a travel ban on Pakistanis in May this year.
Kuwait had suspended visas for nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2011 over what it said was difficult security conditions in the five countries.
Pakistan began visa resumption talks with Kuwait in 2020, following which hundreds of nurses, doctors and medical technicians were able to travel to the Gulf state.
In May, after a meeting with Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said business and family visas for Pakistani nationals would be resumed “immediately”.
Last month, during a meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart, Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi welcomed Kuwait’s relaxation of the travel restrictions.
Pakistan enjoys a long-standing fraternal relationship with Kuwait, an important Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country.
Kuwaiti emir accepts President Alvi’s invitation to visit Pakistan
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Kuwaiti emir accepts President Alvi’s invitation to visit Pakistan
- Sheikh Nawaf reiterates commitment to ‘expand relations’ between the two countries
- Kuwait lifted a decade-old travel ban on Pakistanis in May this year
