... All I meant was that I know alot of people who have been rejected an indian visa on the grounds that they are of pakistani origin. Therefore I wanted to ask if anyone has had a similar experience. I would be wishing to do legitimate business in india in the pharmacy field. Has anyone got any experience of this please. Many thanks
I believe that you are quite right about a bias that makes it difficult for many Pakistanis to get Indian passports without a long delay, if they can get the passport at all. I did not really understand the problem, until I read an article in the Wall Street Journal called "Why My Father Hated India." The article presents good information, but even that seemed incomplete. Then I saw an "
Analysis of Why My Father Hated India at backgroundsearch.com
by an Indian from the Indian perspective.
Excerpt from "Why My Father Hated India":
"To understand the Pakistani obsession with India, to get a sense of its special edge—its hysteria—it is necessary to understand the rejection of India, its culture and past, that lies at the heart of the idea of Pakistan. This is not merely an academic question. Pakistan's animus toward India is the cause of both its unwillingness to fight Islamic extremism and its active complicity in undermining the aims of its ostensible ally, the United States."
Excerpt from "Analysis of Why My Father Hated India":
"About Pakistan's economic success, the news that we get in India (of course filtered) gives us a different picture. I think they survive on USA and Chinese funds. The control of the nation is basically with ISI (Inter-service Intelligence) their version of CIA, and a puppet government. By far, interrogation of all of the terrorist attacks done on Indian soil ends in ISI."
Anyway, back to my opinion, all this conflict and terrorism means that India takes extra care and causes extra delays in issuing visas to people from Pakistan.
