Pak patients to be issued Indian visas on Sartaj’s recommendation, says Swaraj

NEW DELHI: Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Monday said visas will be issued to Pakistani patients on the recommendation of Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.

In a series of tweets, Swaraj said she sympathised with those seeking medical visa for their treatment in India, adding that she saw no reason for Sartaj Aziz to hesitate to give his recommendation for nationals of his own country. She further assured Pakistani national of an immediate visa once the adviser issued a recommendation.  The Indian minister further said she had personally written a letter to Aziz requesting him to grant a visa for the mother of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who wants to meet her son in prison. However, she said Aziz had not acknowledged the letter she wrote him. Jadhav was sentenced to death by a military tribunal in Pakistan on charges of espionage and terrorism.