The 30-year-old female was travelling near the Edhi Center behind the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in the Clifton area of Karachi.
She was stopped by the Boat Basin police patrolling the area and asked to submit documents for identification purposes.
She was subsequently arrested when the police discovered that her passport bore an expired business visa. The police said her visa had expired on December 2, 2010.
FIR no. 310/2011 has been registered against her under section 7/14 of the Foreign Act.
Police have detained the Russian national at the Boat Basin police station, and are now inquiring why she did not have her visa renewed.
Earlier this month, two US nationals were barred from entering Peshawar and were sent back to Islamabad for not obtaining permission to enter the provincial capital.
(Read: US nationals barred from entering Peshawar)
Many foreigners are residing in different parts of the country without legal documents. The situation forced the ministry of interior, in the second week of December last year, to ask the FIA and intelligence agencies to expel all such people from Pakistan by December 30, 2010.
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Jihadi: She is a friend of mine and was working here for the last one year. Don't jump to conclusion that you don't know anything about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI-EUgC-0eE - the girl is an exchange student working at a vehicle tracking company . her visa expired because her boss took rs50k from her saying he will get it renewed.
No doubt Pakistan is stopping and searching all white people - it's called racism in case you didn't know it.
Must be serving the elite class of karachi :))
i dare the government to do the same with arabs in pakistan they will teach them a lesson of their lives if they haven't already realised how powerful arabs are in pakistan.
Russian consulate is next to Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine, so no wonder russians were caught there. Must be some embassy staff under cover of business visa.