{"id":91693,"date":"2026-10-22T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/91693"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:47:51","slug":"pakistan-to-stop-issuing-machine-readable-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/91693","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to stop issuing machine-readable passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Pakistan will stop issuing machine-readable passports (MRPs) from 23 October 2026, with authorities switching exclusively to electronic passports (e-Passports), according to the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the directorate, all passport offices across Pakistan and Pakistani diplomatic missions abroad would issue only e-Passports to new applicants from that date.<\/p>\n<p>The transition to the new system was initially scheduled to begin on 15 October 2026, but was subsequently postponed to 23 October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Under the revised policy, machine-readable passports will no longer be issued once the new deadline takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani diplomatic missions abroad have also issued formal notices regarding the change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/pakistan-to-stop-issuing-machine-readable-passports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan will stop issuing machine-readable passports (MRPs) from 23 October 2026, with authorities switching exclusively to electronic passports (e-Passports), according to the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports. According to the directorate, all passport offices across Pakistan and Pakistani diplomatic missions abroad would issue only e-Passports to new applicants from that date. The transition to the new system was initially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1792712871_Passport-1-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":8561,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":8561,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91695,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions\/91695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}