Pakistanis did not require pre-arrival visas and could get visas-on-arrival in any country they wished to travel, including India
The Bengali text had disappeared from the West Pakistani passport
By 1954, the colour green had ousted the beige. The two flags were still there, but the holder's name now appeared on the cover.
Due to tensions between the state and the Bengali majority of East Pakistan, the government had introduced the One Unit scheme, which treated the ethnically diverse West Pakistan as a single province and the Bengali-dominated East Pakistan as the other province.
Consequently, West Pakistani passports (like the one in the picture) had 'Pakistan Passport' written only in English and Urdu, whereas East Pakistani passports had the same written in English and Bengali.
This was soon changed, but the rest of the contents remained the same: holder's name, photo, address, profession, and marital status.
Pakistanis could still get on-arrival-visas in most countries, except Israel, the Soviet Union and Afghanistan – countries that Pakistan had developed strained relations with. However, India and Pakistan were still issuing on-arrival-visas to one another despite the fact that both had gone to war in 1948.
