India-Pakistan diplomatic visa freeze
According to government sources, the freeze began last month when Pakistan refused to issue visas to two yoga instructors.
Sandeep Unnithan New Delhi, July 16, 2015 | UPDATED 19:35 IST
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India and Pakistan have halted issuing diplomatic visas to each other. According to government sources, the freeze began last month when Pakistan refused to issue visas to two yoga instructors. India retaliated by refusing to issue a visa to a diplomat suspected to be an ISI official. As a result, Pakistan has now stopped issuing visas to several Indian officials including an Indian defence attache and other diplomatic officials. And so, the tit for tat continues.
According to sources, the government, earlier in the day, planned a multi-pronged approach to take on Pakistan following a warning by intelligence agencies of more attacks on Border Security Force (BSF) posts on the border.
India and Pakistan traded heavy fire on the international border in Jammu district on Thursday on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's day-long visit to the region, police said. Incidents unprovoked firing by Pakistani forces targeting BSF posts in Jammu and Kashmir region has seen a sudden rise in the reecent past. On July 9, Pakistani troops fired at a forward border post in North Kashmir killing a BSF jawan, an incident that came on the eve of talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa, Russia.
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