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Pakistan no to visa camp

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, MARCH 18. The Indian High Commission has dropped plans to hold a camp in Karachi tomorrow to grant visas to cricket fans with tickets for the third and final Test in Bangalore after the Pakistan Government denied permission to hold the camp.

"The proposed visa camp has been cancelled as permission was not received from the Pakistan Foreign Office," a senior official of the Indian High Commission here said. It is not clear why the Pakistan Government has not cleared the proposal for a visa camp.

Over 90 per cent of visa seekers hail either from Karachi city or Sindh province. They experience difficulties in obtaining an Indian visa as they have to travel to Islamabad first to submit the application along with the passport and later to collect the visa. The people of Sindh and Karachi eagerly await the reopening of the Indian Consulate in Karachi, shut down in the mid-Nineties.

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