Foreign Minister Visa Protocol: The 25th Annual Summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization is being held in Pakistan. In which representatives of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and India have participated. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar went to attend this meeting from the Indian side. Relations between India and Pakistan are not very good.
And for this reason questions are coming in the minds of many people. Did Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar have to take a visa to visit Pakistan? Let us tell you what is the answer to this and what are the rules regarding visa for a foreign minister to visit another country.
Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar took visa for Pakistan?
Normally when an official of a country goes to another country for an official government visit. So in such a situation, the government gives him a diplomatic passport. Which includes many discounts. Diplomatic passport shows that the concerned official has come to that country on official government work.
Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar has also gone to Pakistan on diplomatic passport. In many countries, government officials and diplomatic passport holders are given exemption on visa in many countries. But according to the information found on the website of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, Indian officials holding diplomatic visas in Pakistan are not given exemption in visa.
Visa rules for government work
According to the information available on the official website of the Home Ministry of India, Indian diplomatic passport holders and authorized people traveling abroad for official work in 101 countries of the world do not require a visa. Let us tell you that the same rules apply in most countries.
But countries between which diplomatic relations are tense. This discount is not available there. Relations between India and Pakistan are currently in a tense situation. That is why Indian diplomats and people going for official work also have to take a visa.
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