Pakistan, Oct. 27 -- The Senate on Monday blocked a private member's bill seeking to withdraw the free-for-all issuance of diplomatic passports to ministers of state, advisers, special assistants and senior bureaucrats and rejected the motion for introduction of the Passports (Amendment) Bill, 2026.

The bill was moved by PTI Senator Faisal Saleem Rehman, chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, along with senators Samina Mumtaz Zehri and Saifullah Abro.

Declaring his opposition to the bill, State Minister for Interior Tallal Chaudhry said, "You are bringing an amendment to the authority of the cabinet which you have not seen." To this, Senator Faisal responded that the bill was about diplomatic passports, which only minist...