Shame on
the Government which has forgotten the brutal killing of Indian soldiers
and giving away visas to the citizens of enemy country like Pakistan !
Now it is high time for patriotic Indians to defeat this spineless and
insane Govt. in forthcoming elections ! - Editor
India has started issuing visas on
arrival for senior Pakistani citizens, a facility that was suspended
following the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers along the LoC on
January 8, which subsequent heightened tensions in bilateral relations.
The facility was supposed to begin from
January 15 this year, as part of the new liberalised visa pact between
the two countries.
“We have launched visa on arrival
facility to Pakistani senior citizens at the Attari Integrated Check
Post from April 1,” a Home Ministry official said.However, no decision
has been taken on the stalled group tourist visa facility to Pakistani
nationals.
The two countries had agreed to
operationalise the group tourist visa facility to be offered to each
other’s citizens from March 15.
Though there is no visible forward
movement in India- Pakistan bilateral relations, the reason for the
sudden launch of the visa for Pakistani senior citizens was not
immediately known.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March
had said that the barbaric killing of Indian soldiers in Kashmir had
cast a shadow on bilateral relations and asked Pakistan to create a
conducive environment to take the normalisation process forward.
Singh had said he was yet to see any
“tangible progress” in dismantling of terror infrastructure in Pakistan
and bringing to justice the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks.
Earlier also, Singh had said that it cannot be “business as usual” between the neighbours following the LoC incident.
The new visa agreement was signed last
September to ease cross-border travel as part of a number of Confidence
Building Measures (CBMs).
Some clauses of the relaxed visa regime
like multiple-entry and reporting-free visas for businessmen and
allowing them to travel to five cities instead of the earlier three were
operationalised when Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited
New Delhi in December.
Source : Niti Central
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