India grants medical visas to three Pakistanis

Sushma Swaraj has recently been using the social media platform to answer appeals by Pakistanis

India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said three Pakistani nationals, including a nine-year-old girl would be given Indian visas for medical treatment, The Hindu reported.

Nine-year-old Mariam Danish's father, Danish Memon, had reached out to Swaraj on Twitter for treatment of thalassemia. She asked the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to issue travel documents immediately.



“Maria Danish, I am asking Indian High Commission in Pakistan to issue your visa immediately,” Swaraj tweeted.

Maria Danish - I am asking Indian High Commission in Pakistan to issue your visa immediately. @DanishM10744644
pic.twitter.com/R0aGxbcvbe

— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) November 27, 2017

Replying to another request by Mariam Asim for medical visa for her father's treatment, she said India would issue the visa.

Pls contact Indian High Commission in Pakistan with your papers. We will issue the visa. @IndiainPakistan https://t.co/wf1Qoxxa2o

— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) November 27, 2017

The External Affairs Minister also assured another Pakistani woman, Fariha Usman, that her visa would be granted.

Swaraj has recently been using the social media platform to answer appeals by Pakistanis to grant them medical visas.

Earlier this month, the Foreign Office lamented India’s policy of denying medical visas to Pakistani patients.

“India is continuing to impose a condition on Pakistani patients seeking medical treatment in India that they must possess a reference letter from the foreign minister to be granted a visa,” said the FO spokesperson.



“The Indian’s government attitude towards these patients is inhuman and a tactic to create more difficulties for them,” he added.

In May, New Delhi ‘tightened’ Pakistan medical visa rules amid heightening tension between the nuclear arch-rivals.