The New Year will bring a 50 percent increase in passport fee, Pakistan Today learnt on Friday.
The Passport Department has jacked up the ordinary passport’s fee by Rs 900, bringing the new fee to Rs 3,000 from January 1, 2012. Similarly, the fee for urgent passport has also gone up by Rs 1000, raising it to Rs 5,000.
Rs 1,000 have also been added to the fee for the 72-page passport and Rs 2,000 to the fee for urgent passport of the same kind. The ordinary fee for the 100-page passport has been increased from Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000, and in the case of an urgent passport, the fee has gone up from Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000. The department has increased the fees to achieve a new revenue target of Rs 14 billion as compared to Rs 11 billion.
Irshad Bhatti, director at the Passport Department headquarters, told Pakistan Today that the increase in fee would enable the department to meet the set target.
Sources in the department said the government was planning to increase the passport fee since 2010 but could not materialise the idea. “It decided to raise the fees by 100 percent in July 2010,” sources revealed. “Even the Interior Ministry had ordered to increase the normal passport fee to Rs 4,100, and the urgent passport fee to Rs 8,000 from Rs 4,000. The included bank fee had to be raised to Rs 100 from an existing Rs 25,” the sources said.
They said the increase in fees may also apply to Pakistanis residing abroad. However, they added that the government had stopped the Interior Ministry from increasing passport fees at the eleventh hour to avoid public anger.
VERY BAD it is not good thing.
bad thing
It is a facility that is provided by a Govt to its citizens. But in our country the facilities are given in the shape of burden. If some one goes abroad, certainly his earnings will earn foreign exchange. So the fee should be lessened instead of increasing.
ur comment is so PATHETIC too, what are u? a leader?? politician ? or just a big-mouthed guy, like many others ???
Sham Sham Govt.
All Borden hanging to poor people.
Pakistani pasport only for rich peoples.
its very bad think.
what can do 80% poor population of pakistan…..
pakistani govt is a very bad
Can I travel back to Pakistan if my Pakistani Passport is expired?
yes
bahot tang karty ha passpord ban wany jao to
ya feec bhot zaida ha km kary
what is fee to renew passport?
its really too much bad thing
gvt should reduce passport fee.
aur umeed bhi kia ki ja skti he
to ap lo na jo bahr ap log apni country me raho na
YES PAKISTAN MAIN RAHO, BAM DHAMAKO MAIN MARO, RISHWAT DO AUR KAAM PHIR BHI NA HO, EDUCATION BAD, BACHON KI TARBIYYAT BAD, YOU ARE RIGHT.
well no one is stoping you to go abroad but if u thnk Pakistan is such a bad place to leave then u surely surrender ur citizenship and apply for asylum in UK or Aus
i heared urgent passport taking 2 months and ordiarny taking 6 months..is that true?
dnt knww
nope!!!!!!!!!! urgent take a week and normal takes a month
GUYs can U ANy tELL abouT urgent PASPOrt fee ?
can U ANy onE Tell mE ABout urgET PASPort fEE??
5000
It's strange that i could not find an official website to confirm this information , do Pakistan has a website for passport service ?
there was one.. but its down since last month..
Yes,Pakistan is like paradise for feudal,lords MPAs,MNAs,corrupt bureaucrats and for poor is hell made this our so called leaders.WHO is responsible all this people of Pakistan .why they vote so called leaders.think about it
yaar renew karwane mai kitne paise lag sakte hain koi bata sakta hai urgent renew karwana hai
ya ha tabdeeli begart govt hmari
shame shame pak GOVT
any body tell me how documents requid for pass port
mey apna apspot bnana chta hon os k ly kia kar ha p
PPP nay das saal kay liya passport ke validity rakhe thee Passport Deptt:nay essay 5 saal kardiya sirf paisay kamanay ke liya. Logon ke pareshani aur barha de. Yeh hay humari govt. jo logon ko aasani key bajay maali pareshani may mubtila kar diya hay. Dono haaton say gharib awam ko looto yahan kaun poochnay wala hay Assembly may saaray landlord aur bureaucrat baithay hain.Gharib ka Allah hafiz hay
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what's fee to renew the pssport?both case urgent or normal
Oh this very bad about the Pak Government. why they are behaving like this. The people are always trust in he government but the govt is not ready to realize them and they are not at all consider their problems. I saw this kind of increase in the case of best essay writing company for getting the perfect essay. since there is too demand about the product, but in this case that is not possible. I feel shame on the Pak govt.
Oh this very bad about the Pak Government. why they are behaving like this. The people are always trust in he government but the govt is not ready to realize them and they are not at all consider their problems. I saw this kind of increase in the case of best essay writing company for getting the perfect essay. since there is too demand about the product, but in this case that is not possible. I feel shame on the Pak govt. –
pta ni yeh govt kya kry gi hamry sath r ky kya dekhana hy abi to hamy
lolz mjy tu in per taras arha ha k gunaah krny k lye kisi b had tk gir skty ha in ki gov b inhi k lye ha 😀 is govt se leny se asha banda inhi ko sulhi per chara k apni govt bana de 🙁 😀
any body tell me passport normal and urgent fees plz reply me soon.
plz tell me na
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