Pakistan’s Passport Ranking Climbs Five Spots to 98th on Henley Index

• Pakistan’s passport now offers visa-free entry to 10 countries, including Barbados, Cook Islands, Dominica, Haiti, Micronesia, Montserrat, Rwanda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vanuatu.
• Visa-on-arrival is available in 18 territories: Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Maldives, Mozambique, Nepal, Niue, Palau, Qatar, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, and Tuvalu.

• Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) options exist for Kenya, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka.
• Top global passports: Singapore leads with visa-free access to 192 countries, followed by Japan and South Korea (188 each), while Denmark, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland share third place (186 each).
• Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi welcomed the improvement on X, calling it a “strong achievement” and pledging that the positive momentum will continue.

This upward movement marks a reversal from recent years, when Pakistan’s passport had been ranked among the world’s weakest, holding the fourth-worst spot for five consecutive years until last October. The Henley Index measures passport power based on visa-free and visa-on-arrival access, underscoring diplomatic efforts and international relations.