{"id":100697,"date":"2022-01-21T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=100697"},"modified":"2022-01-21T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:22:03","slug":"pakistan-extending-maximum-facilities-including-on-arrival-visa-to-tourists-qureshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=100697","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan extending maximum facilities including on-arrival visa to tourists: Qureshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 21 (TNS): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Friday said that the government was extending maximum facilities to foreign tourists including the visa-on-arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister, in a meeting with Special Assistant to PM on Tourism Azam Jamil, said the foreign tourists were attracted towards Pakistan after some improvement in the COVID situation.<\/p>\n<p>He said the tourism promotion was among the priorities of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the country witnessed unprecedented growth in tourism in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, like other sectors, the COVID-19 pandemic also adversely impacted tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to his recent visit to Spain, the foreign minister said he had a fruitful meeting with Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization.<\/p>\n<p>SAPM Azam Jamil thanked the foreign minister and hinted at formulating a comprehensive national tourism policy in collaboration with the foreign ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Jan 21 (TNS): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Friday said that the government was extending maximum facilities to foreign tourists including the visa-on-arrival. The foreign minister, in a meeting with Special Assistant to PM on Tourism Azam Jamil, said the foreign tourists were attracted towards Pakistan after some improvement in the COVID situation. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100699,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100697\/revisions\/100699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}