One cannot really blame the US or the West for chipping in this clause for the residents of the “Land of the Pure”.
ISLAMABAD: According to the online visa application form issued by the US Department of State, everyone applying for a US visa must declare whether he or she is visiting the US to engage in prostitution. It asks: “Are you coming to the United States to engage in prostitution or unlawful commercialised vice or have you been engaged in prostitution or procuring prostitutes within the past 10 years?”
This reminds one of the arrest of nine Asian men, most of them of Pakistani origin, who were arrested in Britain on charges of grooming teenage girls to engage in prostitution. The suspects, aged between 20 and 40, from Rochdale and Heywood in Greater Manchester, were arrested on charges of causing/inciting child prostitution, sexual activity with a child under 16 and paying for the sexual services of a child. One cannot really blame the US or the West for chipping in this clause for the residents of the “Land of the Pure”, owing to our own follies and pathetic reputation.
Dr Irfan Zafar
Published in The Express Tribune, March 27th, 2013.
