Kuwait bans 5 Muslim majority countries including Pakistan

Kuwait City: Subsequently US President Donald Trump’s executive order banning seven Muslim-majority countries last Friday, the Kuwaiti government has now told would-be migrants from the five banned nations to not apply for visas.

The five countries include Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. Though, Pakistan’s Ambassador in Kuwait Ghulam Dastagir has refuted reports of a visa ban placed on the country by Kuwait.

Interestingly,Kuwait will be the only nation to prohibit the entry of Syrian nationals prior to Mr Trump’s executive action.

Kuwait,in July 2016 had foiled thee terror plots planned by the ISIS. Several pre-emptive raids inside and outside Kuwait ended in the arrests of militants which the interior ministry had said belonged to “Daesh”(Daesh is the Arabic acronym for ISIS).