Masshad will be the primary destination of mine in Iran brother. I am just confirming whether Iran allows for someone to visit independently for holy purpose or it just allows the carvans from Pakistan. Because someone told me that Iran won't grant me a Visa unless am accompanied by a female like Mother, Sister or Wife. Is that true?
As i read in this website bro, only these nationalities are allowed to visit Iran without visa, visa-free for a short time :
Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bolivia, Armenia and Egypt.
http://hipersia.com/news.cfm?id=727
But others have to first visit Iranian embassy and receive the visa.
Iranian ambassador to Pakistan has made efforts to ease the process of issuing visa to Pakistani pilgrims and their family.
Translation of an other website :
http://www.irna.ir/fa/News/82711023
Special facilities for issuing Arbaeen visas to Pakistani nationals by Iran
ISLAMABAD - IRNA - The ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran in Islamabad has said that expelling the issue of a health certificate for Pakistani citizens and making the affairs speed up the issuance of Arbaeen pilgrims visa, explaining the visa procedure for Pakistani pilgrims and their religious tourists.
Special facilities for issuing Arbaeen visas to Pakistani nationals by Iran
According to IRNA, the rich culture and love of the Iranian people to the martyrs have caused the Iranian people to receive the convoy of Arbaeen pilgrims from Pakistan as a brother and a beloved guest, in order not to feel alienated.
According to Iranian officials, last year, 42,000 Pakistani pilgrims arrived in Iran for participation in the ceremony of Muharram and Arbaeen through the Mir-iwa border, which is expected to increase this year.
Iran's ambassador to Pakistan, Mehdi Honarodost, said in an interview with IRNA on Saturday, explaining Iran's efforts to speed up and provide the issuing of ministries for Pakistani pilgrims, Arbaeen Hosseini, said the actions are expected to be more than 200,000 visas for Pakistani pilgrims Arbaeen will be issued at the embassy of Iran and the four Consulate General of Iran.
He removed the provision of health certificates for Pakistani citizens, increased hours of work for the Embassy's Consular Section to address Pakistani citizens' requests and electronic processes, an effective step in managing time, reducing the length of the ministry's issuance and shortening intermediaries, adding that removing profiteers And the mediation that imposed high costs on the applicant was another achievement of Iran's recent move to facilitate the issuance of visas.
Honardoust noted: In a new way, visa applicants in the country, with access to the Internet and online registration, apply for a visa and receive an appointment to the consulate in the date and time that the system offers them, and no later than two days after Delivering your documents will receive your visa.
He said the Iranian embassy in Pakistan, through the implementation of measures such as eliminating the health certificate for Pakistani citizens and receiving electronic applications, provided a lot of facilities for the pilgrims of the Atabaat aliat and holy Mashhad of that country, and in this regard, with follow up and obtaining permits In Tehran, one of the serious barriers to issuing a visa, which provided health and safety certificates, was removed from the visa requirement. (Mashhad visa is eased too)
Iran's Ambassador to Pakistan, in another part of his speech, said that every year during Muharram and safar, increasing demand from the people of Pakistan to travel to Iran's pilgrimage sites and travel to the atabat aliat. The issuance of visas was subject to the rules and regulations of notification And the Iranian embassy in Pakistan and the four consulates in Peshawar, Karachi, Lahore and Quetta have reduced their visa time to two working days by boarding their work.
Iran's ambassador to Pakistan emphasized: At peak hours, around 400-450 visas are issued annually by the Consular Section of the Iranian Embassy in Islamabad for Pakistani pilgrims to Arbaeen this year.
The Embassy and Representative Office of the Iranian Consulate General in Pakistan, two years ago, issued 100,000 visas and 150,000 last year for arbaeen pilgrims, which is expected to increase by 200,000 this year with measures taken.
At the end of his speech, the issuance of visa applications was also an effective step in reducing visa time and saving time for Pakistani citizens.
According to IRNA and according to Iranian embassy officials in Pakistan, since last week about 36 thousand visas for Pakistani pilgrims Those who want to travel to the Atabat aliat in the days of Arbaeen That number was from the Iranian Consulate General in Peshawar 13,500, Karachi 10,500, Lahore 5,000, Quetta 2,500, and Islamabad 4,000 have been issued.
According to statistics, 18,500 Pakistani pilgrims from the 24th of September this year to October 30th entered the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran through the Mirjawa border crossing.
The arrival of these pilgrims to the Islamic Republic of Iran during this time has been carried out by bus and foot, and the facilities for resting these pilgrims at the border crossing of Mirjawa are foreseen.
Seventy-seven thousand and 744 pilgrims with 176 Pakistani buses and 10,000 pilgrims on foot, arrived in Sirjan and Balouchestan from the border of Mirjawa.
Sistan and Baluchistan is the only way for Pakistan to connect to Central Asia, Europe, as well as Iraq and its heart, Karbala, whose border after the victory of the Islamic Revolution has opened to the pilgrims of Pakistan to reach this heart of the earth and Pakistani pilgrims on the way To reach the destination of the beloved, they step on the territory of Sistan and Baluchistan and spend some nights in this province.
Used google translate. There might be grammatical error, hope it helps you bro.
