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India Today
09-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Did the right thing: Pak woman living in India for 26 years supports Op Sindoor
India launched military strikes against terror hideouts in Pakistan apart from a slew of measures in response to the Pahalgam attack, which claimed 26 lives. India also banned Pakistani nationals from entering the country and cancelled their existing visas. However, Pakistani nationals living in India on Long-Term Visas were Naureen, a Pakistani woman living with her husband in Kolkata for the last 26 years, holds an LTV and she supports India's Operation Sindoor strikes against Pakistan's terror factories, justifying a "tit-for-tat move".advertisementPakistani nationals carrying a Long-Term Visa were not asked to leave India under the ongoing crackdown amid worsening India-Pakistan ties. Naureen had applied for Indian citizenship years back but is still to get it. Her first husband died, after which she got married to an Indian Muslim and got settled in Kolkata. Naureen got married to Mohammad Adbullah Qureshi in August 1999, came to India and has been staying with her husband since then. Speaking exclusively to India Today, Naureen supported the Indian government's strikes against the Pakistani terror network under Operation Sindoor, which killed over 100 terrorists in the strikes carried out on May thinks the airstrike carried out by the Air Force was the proper lesson Pakistani terrorists deserved."If someone hurts you, there is nothing wrong with hurting them back. Those killing innocent people should get a befitting answer. That's what the government has done," Naureen said while condemning terror attacks in feel bad when innocent people are killed for no reason," Naureen said, reacting to the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam's Baisaran valley, in which 25 Indians and one Nepali national were who hails from Pakistan's Lahore, often visits her birthplace every four to five years, but she has spent a considerable amount of time living in India without any hassle. She chose to shatter the narrative, run by some in India, that Muslims are not safe in the country or do not feel safe enough under the Modi government."Why should I be bothered? Nothing scares me in India. I do not have a problem with Modiji (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) and he does not bother me. What have I got to do with him?" Naureen said while allaying concerns often associated with Muslims living in between India and Pakistan have been worsening by the day amid the ongoing military conflict. Earlier, India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, banned Pakistani nationals, downsized staff at respective diplomatic missions, closed airspace to Pakistani flights, among two countries have been busy exchanging fire near the Line of Control and the International Border since India launched Operation Sindoor to eliminate terror infrastructure in Pakistan and the Watch
New Indian Express
30-04-2025
- New Indian Express
Three Pakistani infiltrators remain in Hyderabad past medical visa deadline
HYDERABAD: As of Tuesday — the deadline for Pakistani citizens visiting India on medical visas to leave — three infiltrators from the neighbouring country were still in Hyderabad. There are several cases registered against these three. 'One of these Pakistani nationals is in jail, another is in a detention centre, while the last one has been released on bail, is living in the city and is under police watch,' a source in the Hyderabad Police told TNIE. It may be noted that only four of the 200-odd Pakistani nationals staying in Hyderabad police commissionerate limits had arrived in the city on short-term visas. One of them left for Pakistan on April 26 and the other three the next day. A police official told TNIE that most of the Pakistani nationals who came here have relatives in the city and some even married Indian citizens. 'Most of these couples had met in Dubai,' the officer said. Interestingly, one of the Long- Term Visa holders staying in the city had renounced his Indian citizenship and is a Pakistani national. After renouncing citizenship, man from Hyd got LTV He had met a woman from Pakistan in Dubai and they fell in love and got married. He renounced his Indian citizenship and took Pakistani citizenship. After a few years, they got divorced. The woman continues to live in Pakistan, and he travels there when required for work. The couple has four children — two stay in Pakistan and two of them are staying in Hyderabad with their father,' a police officer said.
India Today
26-04-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Government order due to security concerns: Court rejects Pak woman's visa plea
The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition filed by a Pakistani national married to an Indian citizen, who sought the consideration of her Long-Term Visa application in view of the government cancelling stays of Pakistanis in India post the deadly Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists. The plea, according to sources, also sought directions to prevent the revocation of the residential permit of the woman, identified as Sheena who sought the consideration of her Long-Term Visa application submitted on April 23, 2025, in light of the court's disinclination, withdrew her petition. The court, addressing the matter, noted that the Ministry of Home Affairs had issued an order on April 25, 2025, suspending visa services for Pakistani nationals. The bench observed that, on a prima facie basis, this order did not warrant judicial review, as it was driven by serious national security concerns."The aforesaid order (of Centre) has resulted in the revocation of the petitioner's visa and also inhibits processing of the petitioner's application (dated 23.04.2025) seeking Long-Term Visa," the court said in its order."The petitioner essentially seeks to circumvent the consequence/s flowing from the aforesaid order dated 25.04.2025. Prima facie, the aforesaid order issued under Section 3(1) of the Foreigners Act, 1946 does not warrant any judicial review given that the issuance of the same was impelled by serious national security considerations," it court pointed out that the order, issued under Section 3(1) of the Foreigners Act, 1946, was not subject to judicial scrutiny and emphasised that it was beyond the court's jurisdiction to carve out exceptions to the had applied for a Long-Term Visa with the Bureau of Immigration, but the government's recent directive led to the revocation of her visa and halted the processing of her InMust Watch
