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Maryam Hussain
"The Foreign Office has directed 10 Pakistani ambassadors, including those in the United Kingdom and the United States, to provide details about hundred of thousands of passports that have gone “missing” from the premises of these embassies over the last five years. Sources in the Foreign Office have claimed that presently the Foreign Ministry has no record of stolen and missing passports, although the auditor general of Pakistan had indicated irregularities in the issuance of passports abroad in the past. Sources said the FO bureaucracy did not give any importance to the AGP findings. They said that passports were missing from 10 Pakistani embassies. Officials documents available with Daily Times revealed that the Foreign Office had directed its ambassadors in Spain, the UK, the USA, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Portugal, Oman, Qatar and Canada to furnish details about the numbers of passports that disappeared over the last five years. Sources claimed that a strong fear was being expressed in Islamabad that the passports might land in the hands of ‘terrorists’ and subsequently bring more troubles to Pakistan, whose track record is already very poor at the international level." [Brief]
