Italian minister says decision to issue 10,500 work visas for Pakistanis aimed at promoting ‘legal migration’

ISLAMABAD: Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi reiterated a decision made last year to issue visas to over 10,000 skilled Pakistani workers, saying that it was aimed at promoting “legal migration”. Italy would issue 10,500 work visas for Pakistan’s skilled workers to promote “legal migration”, he said during a meeting with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Rome, according to a statement issued by the interior ministry. In December last year, an agreement was reached between Pakistan a...

By [email protected] (Iftikhar A. Khan)