ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom has changed its travel advice on Friday to reflect the improved security situation in Pakistan.
Friday’s announcement is the result of a comprehensive review of UK travel advice for Pakistan, based on a wide-ranging assessment of the country’s security situation. This is the first major update in the travel advice since 2015.
The improved security situation allowed for the return of British Airways to Pakistan in June 2019 and the visit by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in October 2019.
Among other changes, the advice now allows for travel by road to the North of Pakistan as well as the Kalesh and Bamboret Valleys.
FO hails UK travel advisory change
The Foreign Office of Pakistan welcomed the United Kingdom’s decision on changing their travel advisory for Pakistan and called it a positive step for relationship building.
The official spokesperson for Pakistan’s foreign office, Aisha Farooqui in a series of Tweets hailed the development and said that the initiative would help build “stronger and closer people-to-people links” between the two countries.
In an accompanying tweet on the matter, the spokesperson added that Pakistan was looking forward to hosting “tourists, investors, academics and other visitors.”
The United Kingdom changed its travel advice today (Friday) to reflect the improved security situation in Pakistan.
