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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shweta Sharma

Why Pakistan might need to reprint all passports if it does what Trump asks

File: picture of a Pakistani passport - (AFP/Getty)

Donald Trump’s push to expand the Abraham Accords and persuade more countries to recognise Israel could create an unexpected bureaucratic headache for Pakistan and a handful of other nations whose passports currently bar citizens from travelling to Israel.

The US president on Monday tied a ceasefire in his three-month-long war on Iran to a requirement for more Muslim countries to formally recognising the Abraham Accords, the US-brokered agreements from Mr Trump's first term aimed at normalising diplomatic and economic relations with Israel.

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