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Visas to Pakistani Hindus: India rejects conspiracy
Saturday August 11, 2012 08:34:39 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India Saturday rejected Pakistan's
charges of a "conspiracy" about giving so many visas to Pakistani
Hindus, saying due process and diligence was exercised in
accordance with a decades-long visa pact.
"We have exercised visas after due diligence and followed due
process in accordance with the India-Pakistan visa pact which
regulates travel between the two countries," government sources
told IANS.
"Pakistan has an exit control policy which empowers them to detain
any traveller if the visas were not issued in proper categories
and following the prescribed system," said the sources.
They were reacting to Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik's
accusation alleging a "conspiracy" by India against Pakistan and
demanded to know why the Indian High Commission in the Pakistani
capital had issued so many visas to Hindus.
Malik refused to let the Hindus proceed beyond Jacobabad, Sindh,
unless he was satisfied they would not take asylum in India citing
religious persecution -- as some Pakistani Hindus had done
earlier.
Eventually, after some hours, the Hindus were allowed to go after
their representatives pledged to return to Pakistan.
About 250 Pakistani Hindus have moved to India after promising
authorities here that they will return after completing their
pilgrimage. Many of them complained of ill-treatment and
persecution in Pakistan.
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