{"id":80994,"date":"2025-07-21T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80994"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:58:28","slug":"govt-announces-major-change-in-pakistani-passports-details-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-announces-major-change-in-pakistani-passports-details-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt announces major change in Pakistani passports, details inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Directorate General of Immigration &amp; Passports has announced a decision to change <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/mothers-name-to-be-included-in-new-pakistani-passports-details-inside\/\">Pakistani passports<\/a>. As per the latest reports, the authorities are mulling adding the mother\u2019s name as a mandatory feature, along with the father\u2019s name, for new passports.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/check-latest-72-page-pakistan-passport-fee-update-for-july-2025\/\">Passport and Immigration department,<\/a> the decision to include the mother\u2019s name has been made keeping in mind the social needs and in line with international standards.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that this move aims to meet international requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding those already in possession of passports without this update, no final decision has been announced so far, the spokesperson said. There is a possibility of passport holders requiring issuance of a new passport, but there is a higher likelihood that the new update will be applicable only for new issuances.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that the current passports will remain valid until their due date, and the new change will be applied to passports issued in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Directorate General of Immigration &amp; Passports has announced a decision to change Pakistani passports. As per the latest reports, the authorities are mulling adding the mother\u2019s name as a mandatory feature, along with the father\u2019s name, for new passports. According to a spokesperson for the Passport and Immigration department, the decision to include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30244,30245],"class_list":["post-80994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-major-change-in-pakistani-passports","tag-passport-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80995,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80994\/revisions\/80995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}