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Passport collection counters to remain open on Saturdays for two months

From Dawn · () English

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  • Pakistan’s Directorate General of Immigration and Passports will keep passport collection counters open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for two months.
  • The agency urged citizens who cannot visit during regular hours to collect their passports, warning that unclaimed passports will be destroyed after six months.
  • The extended hours follow the launch of a passport home-delivery service and come as the government moves to phase out machine-readable passports.

Passport collection counters will stay open on Saturdays for the next two months, giving citizens who cannot visit during regular office hours another chance to collect their documents.

The counters will operate from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to a public notice issued by the Directorate General of Immigration and Passports. The notice appeared on the agency’s official website and was also shared on social media.

The DGIP advised citizens to collect their passports as soon as possible. It warned that passports left unclaimed for six months would be destroyed under government policy.

The move follows the DGIP’s partnership in July with logistics and courier company TCS to launch “Passport Aapki Dehleez Par,” a home-delivery service for passports. DGIP Director General Muhammad Ali Randhawa said the initiative reflected the department’s commitment to making passport services more accessible and efficient. In June, the government also announced plans to phase out machine-readable passports.

Passport Aapki Dehleez Par

· Directorate General of Immigration and PassportsName of the home-delivery service launched with TCS.
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