1000 Schengen visa stickers 'stolen' from locker room of Italian embassy in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD (92 News) - As many as 1,000 Schengen visa stickers have been reportedly stolen from the locker room of the Italian Embassy located in the diplomatic enclave of Islamabad.

The embassy wrote a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 16, seeking its help in investigating the theft of the visa stickers.

In the letter, it states that 1,000 Schengen visa stickers had been stolen from the embassy’s locker room and shared the serial numbers of the stolen stickers. Italian authorities were conducting an internal investigations to fix the responsibility for the theft, it added.

Acting on the letter, the Foreign Affairs Ministry asked the Ministry of Interior and Federal Investigation Agency to investigate the matter and keep track of these visa stickers at all entry and exit points and report any seizure to the this ministry.