ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has established separate immigration counters for foreigners at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport to reduce clearance delays, an official said on Sunday, with the facility to be extended to airports nationwide.
The development follows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s directives to authorities this year to improve services at airports across Pakistan to facilitate passengers, businesspeople, tourists and overseas Pakistanis as part of the country’s efforts to boost tourism and foreign investment.
Pakistan, bolstered by a $7 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, is currently making efforts for export-led economic growth and has signed several agreements and memorandums of understanding with a number of countries, particularly those in the Gulf and Central Asia.
“Practical steps have been initiated to improve the immigration system and new immigration counters have been established for foreign passengers at Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore this week,” Mehmood Ali Khokhar, a Federal
Investigation Agency (FIA) spokesperson, told Arab News.
