The Pakistani passport has been ranked because the fourth worst passport for worldwide journey for the 0.33 consecutive yr, neighborhood media pronounced bringing up the record through the Henley Passport Index 2022 on Thursday. According to the record, Pakistani passport holders have visa-loose or visa-on-arrival get admission to to 31 locations across the world.
The Henley Passport Index, that’s a rating of all of the world’s passports in keeping with the variety of locations their holders can get admission to with out a previous visa, located Pakistan at the 108th position. Henley & Partners firm’s
“Henley Passport Index” has been often tracking the world’s maximum journey-pleasant passports because 2006, The News International pronounced.
“The growing journey limitations which have been brought over the path of the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted withinside the widest international mobility hole withinside the index’s 16-yr history,” stated the record.
The index would not take transient regulations into account, so leaving real contemporary journey get admission to aside, holders of the passports on the pinnacle of its rating — Japan and Singapore — are able, in theory, to journey visa-loose to 192 locations, The News International pronounced.
That’s 166 greater locations than Afghan nationals, who take a seat down at the lowest of the index of 199 passports, and may get admission to simply 26 nations with out requiring a visa in advance.
Further down the pinnacle 10, the scores continue to be surely unchanged as we input the primary area of 2022. South Korea is tied with Germany in 2nd place (with a rating of 190) and Finland, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain are all collectively in 0.33 place (with a rating of 189), the Pakistani ebook pronounced.
It similarly pronounced that the EU nations dominate the pinnacle of the listing as usual, with France, Netherlands and Sweden hiking one spot to sign up for Austria and Denmark in fourth place (with a rating of 188). Ireland and Portugal are in 5th place (with a rating of 187). The United States and the United Kingdom, which held the pinnacle spot collectively lower back in 2014, have regained a touch ground.
