{"id":12690,"date":"2025-07-25T02:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2025-07-25T02:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:13:32","slug":"afghanistans-passport-at-the-bottom-of-the-global-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/afghanistans-passport-at-the-bottom-of-the-global-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s passport at the bottom of the global rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12686\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pass-afg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Afghanistan\u2019s passport at the bottom of the global rankings; Symbol of International Isolation and Legitimacy Crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the latest ranking of the Passport Index by the prestigious institution \u201cHenley &amp; Partners\u201d for 2025, the Afghan passport has once again been ranked last in the world; a situation that reflects the increasing isolation and sharp decline in the international credibility of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In the report, which was released on Wednesday, July 23, the Singapore passport topped the list with visa-free travel to 193 countries, while Afghan citizens are only allowed to travel visa-free to less than 12 countries; countries that are mostly unknown, weak and lack extensive diplomatic relations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Henley Index measures the validity of passports based on the number of countries to which citizens can travel without a prior visa. Afghanistan\u2019s low position on the list once again shows that the presence of the Taliban at the top of the list has not only faced a crisis in the country\u2019s political legitimacy, but has also severely limited diplomatic relations and the rights of Afghan citizens globally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This credit crunch continues as millions of Afghans face serious obstacles to leaving the country, with the world\u2019s doors closing one after another.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s passport at the bottom of the global rankings; Symbol of International Isolation and Legitimacy Crisis. According to the latest ranking of the Passport Index by the prestigious institution \u201cHenley &amp; Partners\u201d for 2025, the Afghan passport has once again been ranked last in the world; a situation that reflects the increasing isolation and sharp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12691,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions\/12691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}