{"id":49571,"date":"2025-07-24T06:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=49571"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:19:30","slug":"pakistan-and-bangladesh-reach-principled-agreement-on-visa-free-entry-for-diplomatic-and-official-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-and-bangladesh-reach-principled-agreement-on-visa-free-entry-for-diplomatic-and-official-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan and Bangladesh Reach Principled Agreement on Visa-Free Entry for Diplomatic and Official Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200e<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49574\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bangla-Desh-Pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bangla-Desh-Pakistan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bangla-Desh-Pakistan-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u200eDhaka; July 23, 2025: Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met today with Bangladesh\u2019s Home Minister, Lieutenant General (R) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury. Upon his arrival at the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Bangladeshi Home Minister warmly welcomed his Pakistani counterpart. On this occasion, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi was presented with a guard of honour.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eDuring the meeting, the two sides discussed matters of mutual interest and bilateral relations between Pakistan and Bangladesh. A significant breakthrough was achieved on the facilitation of visa-free entry for holders of diplomatic and official passports, and both countries reached a principled agreement on this matter.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eThe two Ministers agreed to enhance cooperation in internal security and police training. They also held discussions on increasing collaboration in counter-narcotics and anti-human trafficking efforts, along with joint measures for counter-terrorism. Exchange programs for training between police academies were also discussed.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eThe Bangladeshi Home Minister said: \u201cI extend a heartiest welcome to my brother Mohsin Naqvi on his arrival in Dhaka. Your visit is of great significance for strengthening bilateral relations between our two countries.\u201d<br \/>\n\u200eHe also thanked Minister Naqvi for offering training opportunities for Bangladeshi police officers.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eIt was further decided to establish a joint committee to strengthen bilateral cooperation between Pakistan and Bangladesh. On Pakistan\u2019s side, Federal Secretary for Interior, Khurram Agha, will head the committee.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eA high-level Bangladeshi delegation will soon visit the National Police Academy in Islamabad.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eBangladesh\u2019s State Minister for Home Affairs Khuda Bakhsh, Secretary for Home Affairs Nasim Al-Ghani, Additional Secretary Security Division Shamim Khan, Pakistan\u2019s Charge d\u2019Affaires Muhammad Wasif, Political Counsellor Kamran Dehingal, and other senior officials also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ITzvulOwvE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-june-2025\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 June 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 June 2025&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-june-2025\/embed\/#?secret=QjrdENpoTx#?secret=ITzvulOwvE\" data-secret=\"ITzvulOwvE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200e \u200eDhaka; July 23, 2025: Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met today with Bangladesh\u2019s Home Minister, Lieutenant General (R) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury. Upon his arrival at the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Bangladeshi Home Minister warmly welcomed his Pakistani counterpart. On this occasion, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi was presented with a guard of honour. \u200e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[3636,3637,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49576,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49571\/revisions\/49576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}