Pakistan and Saudi Arabia hold talks over status of some 250,000 Rohingya Muslims living in the Gulf kingdom, involving renewing their Pakistani passports
Rohingya started moving to Saudi Arabia via Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Pakistani passports in the 1960s. / Photo: Reuters/ AFP. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Discussions are being held on Riyadh's request, following the Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Nasir Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Dawood 's two-day visit to Islamabad last month.Qadir Yar Tiwana, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, confirmed that the two sides are discussing the renewal of passports and a joint committee has been formed to look into the matter.
Secondly, he said, many Rohingya got married to Saudi women, and according to local laws, their kids cannot be considered Saudi citizens.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch did not respond to messages and calls from AA.Rohingya started moving to Saudi Arabia via Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Pakistani passports in the 1960s, according to Noor Hussain Arakani, a Rohingya community leader.
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