Pak-born US citizens will have to go through close scrutiny for Indian Visa
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, November 12, 2009
The Indian Embassy in Washington has tightened visa approval norms for Pakistan-born American citizens. The embassy took this decision in the view of a Lashkar-a-Taiba plot to use the US nationals to carry out major terror attacks in India.
American federal agency FBI recently unearthed a plot involving a US citizen David Coleman Hadley and Pakistan born US citizen Tahawwur Hussain Rana. The FBI said in its charge sheet that both of them were planning to attack prestigious National Defence College in New Delhi at Lashkar’s behest.
India’s Home Secretary G K Pillai has issued an instruction according to which all applications for Indian visa from Pakistani-born US nationals would now be processed and cleared by New Delhi.
All the Indian Missions in the US have been directed to adhere to the new instructions in this regard from New Delhi.
