{"id":60242,"date":"2026-02-25T19:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=60242"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:37:34","slug":"pakistan-greece-agree-on-joint-measures-against-illegal-immigration-and-human-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-greece-agree-on-joint-measures-against-illegal-immigration-and-human-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Greece Agree on Joint Measures Against Illegal Immigration and Human Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60244\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pakistan-Greece-Visa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pakistan-Greece-Visa.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pakistan-Greece-Visa-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pakistan-Greece-Visa-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>\u200eRome, February 25, 2026: \u200eFederal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met with the Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum, Athanasios Plevris in Rome. During the meeting, both sides agreed to undertake joint measures to combat illegal immigration and human smuggling.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200eBoth sides decided to enhance bilateral cooperation to promote legal migration. It was agreed that the number of work visas would be increased to encourage legal migration channels.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200eBoth countries also agreed to finalize the Migration Cooperation Agreement between Pakistan and Greece, which has been pending for the past two years. A decision was made to establish a Joint Working Group to strengthen mutual cooperation between the two countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200eThe Greek Minister for Migration appreciated Pakistan\u2019s efforts against illegal immigration and human smuggling. Both ministers agreed to improve future coordination.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200eInterior Minister Mohsin Naqvi stated that Pakistan would welcome Greece\u2019s support in enhancing the professional capacity of police and paramilitary forces, particularly in technology-based operations. He emphasized that strengthening legal migration cooperation is the need of the hour to effectively curb illegal immigration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200ePakistan has adopted a zero-tolerance policy against illegal immigration and human smuggling.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200eThe Greek Minister stated that Greece is ready to enhance cooperation with Pakistan at all levels to promote legal migration.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200eOfficers of Punjab Police briefed the delegation on the &#8216;Police Khidmat Markaz Global Initiative&#8217;, which was appreciated by the Greek Minister.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200e<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u200ePakistan\u2019s Ambassador to Italy, Ali Javed; Director General FIA Dr. Usman Anwar; Managing Director Punjab Safe Cities Authority Ahsan Younas and senior police officers Sohail Chaudhry and Abid Khan were also present on the occasion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200e \u200eRome, February 25, 2026: \u200eFederal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met with the Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum, Athanasios Plevris in Rome. During the meeting, both sides agreed to undertake joint measures to combat illegal immigration and human smuggling. \u200e \u200eBoth sides decided to enhance bilateral cooperation to promote legal migration. It was agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[388,732,5200,319,48,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60242"}],"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=60242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60245,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60242\/revisions\/60245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}