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Sushma assures help to ailing Pakistani infant

Approval of medical visas for Pakistani patients has become difficult

News Desk June 01, 2017

India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. PHOTO: FILE

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has offered help to a Pakistani who highlighted his infant's health condition on Twitter.

"Why my bud suffers for medical treatment!! Any answers Sir Sartaaj Azeez or Ma'am Sushma??," the man had tweeted on May 24.

https://twitter.com/KenSid2/status/867381251560361986

In response, Sushma on Wednesday assured help to the father, saying India will grant the family a medical visa.

“The child will not suffer. Please contact [the] Indian High Commission in Pakistan. We will give the medical visa,” she replied.

No. The child will not suffer. Pls contact Indian High Commission in Pakistan. We will give the medical visa. https://t.co/4ADWkFV6Ht https://t.co/OLVO3OiYMB
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) May 31, 2017

India 'tightens' medical visa rules for Pakistanis

The gesture is significant as New Delhi has ‘tightened’ Pakistan medical visa rules amid heightening tension between the nuclear arch-rivals.

Recently, approval of medical visas for Pakistani patients has become difficult as, according to sources, a “go-slow mode” was being practiced.

COMMENTS (11)

Indian_Blr | 7 years ago | Reply Medical visa for poor patients from Pakistan doesn't required any tight rule. It should be grant as early as possible and we Indians supports that especially for kids.

Gruham | 7 years ago | Reply The majority of people of India and Pakistan have no problems with each other....it is the governments and their respective foreign policies towards each other that need a makeover. Guests from across the borders have almost always been welcomed and treated very courteously by people of both these nations that were separated at birth.

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Vivek gupta | 7 years ago | Reply Bhagwan may bless that kid. That kid now has got permission to visit the land of trimurty. Bhagwan will take care of him. Hari om

Gautam | 7 years ago | Reply @Solat: God forbid, if any one in your family dying and you know across the border he/she can be saved.. believe me my friend you will forgot all your hardline approach and heads towards indian high commission for medical visa. Appreciate Madam Sushma for her human approach and BIG heart. We still remember that you and I belongs to same country some 70 years back. Prayers for little kid and surely he will get well soon.

Mehran Siddiqui | 7 years ago | Reply Why does India need to care for this kid? Why can't pakistan do it?

Raj - USA | 7 years ago | Reply @Sandip: Agree with you 100%.

SHJ | 7 years ago | Reply @Solat: You die... Its ok.....why an innocent kid should die?

Sandip | 7 years ago | Reply For all of Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's interventions, I still think that India has made a mistake on this policy of making it more difficult for Pakistanis to acquire medical visas. If anything, we should have made it simpler as this one step touches the lives of the common Pakistani as opposed to their elite.

Solat | 7 years ago | Reply I would prefer to die rather asking for help from these goons.

Mohammed Mirza | 7 years ago | Reply Courteous of her!

GKA | 7 years ago | Reply India responds to pleas from pakistani citizens - Sartaj Aziz remains quiet

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