LAHORE – Passport Index has recently released the list of most powerful passports in 2018, Pakistani passport is ranked the third-last in the world (93), above only Afghanistan and Iraq.
Germany, with a score of 161, was placed first, followed by Singapore, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Spain, and South-Korea placed second with 160 points.
Looking only at the subcontinent countries, we find the Indian passport to be the strongest, with 55 points – up 7 points from 2017, followed by Sri Lanka at 38 points. Bangladesh comes next with 37 points, while Pakistan’s score increased from 27 to 29 points.
However, there are still 28 countries that Pakistanis can visit either without a visa or with visa on arrival, with a few changes from 2017.
Visa-free entry
- Dominica
- Haiti
- Micronesia
- Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Vanuatu
Visa on arrival
- Cambodia
- Qatar
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- Djibouti
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Madagascar
- Maldives
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Nepal
- Bolivia
- Palau
- Samoa
- Seychelles (visitor’s permit)
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Rwanda
It is noteworthy that Nicaragua has stopped the visa on arrival service for Pakistani travellers.
