Pakistan, Saudi Arabia to work on easing travel restrictions

Islamabad: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday discussed how to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions, which have stranded around 400,000 Pakistani workers back home, foreign ministers of the two countries told reporters.

Islamabad took up the issue with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, who is on a one-day visit to Pakistan. Al Saud is the first high-profile Saudi official to arrive in Pakistan after cracks in their historically friendly relations earlier this year.