India has offered large number of medical visas for Pakistani citizens. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has received many laurels for giving medical visas to citizens of the neighboring countries. In a reply to an RTI query on December 8, 2017, The Ministry of Home Affairs (Foreigners Division) said that it has granted medical visas to 380 Pakistani nationals between the period of May 10, 2017, and December 1, 2017. On the occasion of Diwali, Sushma Swaraj granted medical visas to all deserving pending cases.
While India offered large number of medical visas for Pakistani citizens but in times of need Pakistan has always revealed its true colours. Recently, the Pakistan government refused to admit an Indian citizen Vipin Kumar during an emergency situation in the hospital. The whole incident happened in a flight travelling from Istanbul to New Delhi, which had made an emergency landing at Lahore airport on Sunday after the health of an Indian traveler in the flight had deteriorated.
Pakistan first refused to treat the Indian patient and also said no to admit the patient in their hospital for the treatment. The Pakistan government said that due to heavy tension in the relations between India and Pakistan, the Pakistan government and the Immigration Department have refused to treat the Indian patient.
The patient was treated only after the flight reached in New Delhi. After reaching Delhi, a friend of the patient has complained to PM Modi and Sushma Swaraj through social media.
Pakistan, as usual, has shown a lack of gratitude. It is not the first time that Pakistan has shown an inhumane attitude towards an Indian citizen. It is high time India should stop issuing medical visas to Pakistani citizens. Pakistani politicians accused India of tightening medical visa rules and alleged that India is now giving less number of medical visas to Pakistanis and also accused that India is playing politics over medical visas. It’s not India’s job to provide treatment to citizens of a terrorist nation. We have ailing families at our side too, the ones wrecked by the loss of their close ones in war, the ones wrecked like those of Jadhav’s wife and mother. The kind of world we live in, the first responsibility of any government is to look after its citizens. This incident is a message to all those self-declared intellectuals, artists, celebrities, politicians and ‘aman ka tamasha’ gang who believe that Pakistan is a peaceful nation and that India and Pakistan can have friendly relations. Pakistan breeds terrorists and helps them in organizing their vile activities throughout the world. A swift and co-ordinated clampdown on its terror funding sources and terrorist groups is important to bring peace in South East Asia and the rest of the world.