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Number of blue passports brought down to 49,000 from 74,000, DG says
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a security story. Dawn is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 5 Nov 2026, 03:22 UTC. The headline in use is “Number of blue passports brought down to 49,000 from 74,000, DG says”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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ISLAMABAD: The number of official, or blue, passports has been brought down to 49,000 from 74,000 in keeping with international obligations and administrative requirements, Muhammad Ali Randhawa, the director general of Immigration and Passports, disclosed on Wednesday. He shared this information with Syedaal Khan Nasar, the deputy chairman of Senate…
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Number of blue passports brought down to 49,000 from 74,000, DG says
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