Iraq and Pakistan discuss mechanism for granting entry visas to visit the holy shrines and opening a consulate in Najaf

The Secretary-General of the Iraqi Council of Ministers, Hamid Al-Ghazi, and the Pakistani Ambassador, Ahmed Amjad Ali, discussed on Monday, the mechanism for granting entry visas to Pakistani citizens to visit Iraq’s holy shrines.
The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers said in a statement received by Shia Waves Agency, “The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, Hamid Naim Al-Ghazi, received the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Baghdad, Ahmed Amjad Ali, in his office on Monday.”
Al-Ghazi stressed that “Iraq and Pakistan have a strong religious, cultural and political relationship, and the recent period has witnessed mutual diplomatic visits between the two sides.”
The two sides discussed setting up a mechanism for granting entry visas to Pakistani citizens to visit the holy shrines, in addition to taking official diplomatic procedures to open a Pakistani consulate in Najaf.