INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Image courtesy: BBC UrduKARACHI: Fishel Khalid, 31, who has declared himself as a 'Jew' has been issued a fresh passport by the Pakistani
authorities, which mentioned his religion as 'Judaism', BBC Urdu reported.According to the report, Khalid was in contact with NADRA since
2016 to get himself registered as a Jew and after a long battle his claim was confessted by the government.&Although I was registered as a
Muslim at birth, but I told NADRA that I am much a practicing Muslim and supplyd them all the details and documents they asked for in order
to cross check my information,& he told BBC.A news story in this newspaper, reported Thursday that Khalid has been permitted by the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs to travel Israel on the Pakistani passport, which is otherwise much possible due to an official ban.He shall be the first
person in public knowledge allowed to travel Israel on official documents.Khalid told BBC that he requested Prime Minister Imran Khan final
October through ‘Pakistan Citizen Portal& that he wanted to go Israel on his passport.The PM Office then forwarded the request to the
Foreign Office which sough Sindh government input and after getting opinion from all the stakeholders, Khalid was informed that he can
request for Israeli visa on the Pakistani passport.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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