The passport printing delay issue is likely to be resolved for the applicants as 10 state-of-the-art passport printing machines have arrived in Pakistan, with installations are underway.

According to ARY News, all the new printing machines are likely to get operational from next week which will double the printing capacity.

The passport department receives around 50,000 applications, however, the department at full capacity only manages to print 22,000 passports daily.

In order to overcome this demand and supply gap, the government decided to import the most advanced desktop printing machines.