ISTANBUL:
Easy travel processes, including liberal visa regimes with faster communication modes, will further push forward relations between Pakistan and Turkey, according to a Pakistani entrepreneur and social activist.
“The governments of Turkey and Pakistan should make the process of visa extremely easy,” said Rehan Allahwala, co-founder of Super Technologies Inc, well-known for his work on Facebook and other social media platforms.
“So, we can go online and just get the visa very quickly. And that’s something which needs to be worked on,” he told Anadolu Agency at the Pakistan Tech Summit held in Istanbul last week.
“I know that it’s very challenging work. But it’s definitely possible,” he said about making the visa regime easier for people of the two countries.
Allahwala, who started his first company at 13, suggested Turkish authorities should collaborate with Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) on the visa process.
“NADRA has the database of all Pakistani citizens and Turkish authorities can engage with them and make the visa process easier,” he said, adding that it currently takes at least two weeks to get a visa.
More than 200 entrepreneurs, technology experts and sector leaders from Pakistan were on a five-day tour of Turkey where they met their Turkish counterparts at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University and visited other touristic cities.
“There is so much demand from Pakistani people to come to Turkey, but the visa and the...
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