Pakistani passports were ranked fourth worst out of 199.
Despite the fact that Pakistan has successfully reinvented itself as one of the world's top tourism destinations, Pakistanis face difficulties obtaining visas to various countries around the world.
According to a new quarterly analysis released by the UK-based global citizenship and residence advice business Henley & Partners, Pakistanis have the fourth poorest passport out of 199 countries assessed.
Pakistani passport holders can only enter 32 countries visa-free or via visa-on-arrival.
It is worth mentioning that, despite friendly relations with the Middle East, only Qatar provides visas on arrival to Pakistanis, while the rest of the area maintains a severe visa issuance process.
Even a long-standing friendship with the red dragon could not provide visa-free travel to China, our neighbouring economic behemoth.
Our eastern neighbour, India, and our northern neighbour, Tajikistan, are both ranked 87 on the same global ranking.
Worst 2022 passports
- Congo (Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Sri Lanka, and Sudan (42 destinations)
- Bangladesh, Kosovo, and Libya (41 destinations)
- Korea, North (40 destinations)
- Palestinian territory, Nepal (38 destinations)
- Somalia (35 destinations) (35 destinations)
- Yemen (34 destinations)
- Pakistan (32 destinations)
- Syria (30 destinations)
- Iraq (29 destinations)
- Afghanistan (27 destinations)
Some Asian passports, on the other hand, outperform powerful European passports.
Japan, known for its kindness, took the top rank with visa-free or visa-on-demand access to a record 193 countries out of a total of 199.
South Korea and Singapore were not far behind in second place, with easy access to 192 nations.
The remainder of the top ten list is dominated by European passports, with only two foreigners, the United States of America and Canada, occupying the seventh and eighth positions, respectively.
- Best 2022 passports
- Japan (193 destinations)
- South Korea, Singapore (192 destinations)
- Germany and Spain (190 destinations)
- Luxembourg, Finland, Italy (189 destinations)
- Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden (188 destinations)
- France, Ireland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom are all represented (187 destinations)
- Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States are all represented (186 destinations)
- Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Malta are among the countries represented (185 destinations)
- Hungary (183 destinations)
- Slovakia, Lithuania, and Poland (182 destinations)
Henley & Partners' ranking, which is updated in real-time when travel regulations change, is one of several indexes developed by corporations to rate worldwide passports based on the ease of access they allow to their inhabitants.
The index rates 199 passports based on the number of visa-free places that their holders can visit.
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