Pakistan visa - get it at home!
The news is bad: Pakistani consulates and embassies don't want to issue visas for non-residents (Sana'a, Dubai and Abu Dhabi) and have told me to get it at home. Explaining that I travel overland with a vehicle they relented and after much waiting, form-filling, running around and a 3h-trip to Abu Dhabi they finally gave me a visa - for two weeks stay only. I also had to get the dreaded letter of non-objection from my consulate. Most staff were friendly and genuinely wanted to help, but it seems the govt. is going out of its way to make travel to Pakistan difficult.
I had no problem getting 3 month visas back in Germany by post, so my advice is to get a second passport, prepare everything and get your friends or family to post it to the embassy at the appropriate time, then forward it to you.
I'll find out whether this visa is extendable once I get there, in about 4 weeks' time.
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