Kuwait to resume commercial flights with Pakistan, five other nations

ISLAMABAD: Kuwait on Wednesday allowed the resumption of commercial flights with Pakistan and five other countries while adhering to COVID-19 measures set by a ministerial committee, Kuwait’s state news agency (KUNA) said on Wednesday.
Kuwait suspended commercial flights from Pakistan and several other countries in May this year amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Wednesday’s decision also includes Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
“The decision was made in a cabinet meeting which underlined that flights with these countries would be subject to measures identified by Kuwait’s ministerial coronavirus emergency committee,” KUNA said.
Kuwait lifted a bar on visas for Pakistanis after ten years this May. The gulf country had suspended visas for nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2011 over what it said were difficult security conditions in the five countries.
Pakistan began visa resumption talks with Kuwait in 2020, after which the first group of 208 nurses, doctors and medical technicians traveled to Kuwait on October 22, 2020, according to data from the ministry of overseas Pakistan.
In June this year, a fifth group of Pakistani medical professionals arrived in Kuwait, taking the total number of health care workers who have traveled to the state since October last year to 938.