Passports for Afghan citizens.
According to an official, Afghanistan will resume issuing these documents as of Tuesday, October 5.
The announcement comes after months of delays, which hampered attempts by people trying to flee the country following the Taliban takeover.
Passport applicants will receive documents that are physically identical to those from the previous government, the official said.
According to Alam Gul Haqqani, acting head of the Passport Office, 5,000 to 6,000 passports will be issued every day, with women being employed to process citizens' applications.
100,000
pending requests
"No male employee has the right to perform a biometric [check] or other operations relating to a woman's passports," Alam Gul Haqqani told a press briefing in the capital Kabul.
Interior Ministry spokesman Qari Sayeed Khosti said at the same press briefing that the passport applications of 25,000 people had reached the final stage, that of settlement, and that around 100,000 were pending at the start of the process.
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In front of the Kabul Passport Office, a resident, Najia Aman, said she was relieved of the reopening of the building, as she hopes that a member of her family obtains a document allowing her to go abroad to follow there. medical treatment.
"I am very happy that the Passport Office has reopened," she said.
"We had a lot of problems and had not been able to get a passport so [he could go] to Pakistan."
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