Overview
- Pakistan’s passport authority, which confirmed the fix Tuesday, restored services worldwide after a central system fault.
- Missions in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia are taking passport applications again.
- The four-day pause delayed renewals for overseas Pakistanis in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Europe.
- Director General Muhammad Ali Randhawa said backlogged cases will be processed on priority.
- The centralized system in Islamabad links all missions, so a single outage can halt passport work across countries.