ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistan and Afghanistan on Saturday announced mutualresumption of visa services after a three-month diplomatic row.
“Pakistan Embassy is happy to announce that it would be resuming its fullconsular services with effect from Sunday, 29 December, 2019,” thediplomatic mission in Kabul said in a Twitter post on Saturday.
Pakistan’s Embassy had closed its visa section on November 4 to protestalleged harassment of its diplomats in Afghanistan.
After frequent reported cases of Pakistani diplomats’ harassment inAfghanistan, the Foreign Office had also summoned the Afghan chargéd’affaires to convey serious concerns over the safety and security ofembassy personnel in Kabul and its sub-missions
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Meanwhile, Afghan authorities also announced the reopening of Peshawarconsulate general after a nearly three-month closure.
The mission had been shut to protest removal of the Afghan national flagfrom an ‘Afghan market’ built on a disputed piece of land.
