Terror State Pakistan Gets Favour From USA and India BUT India NOT, Why

Pakistan is  considered as a country which  sponsors all terror activities, which promotes terrorism through ISI , which allow terrorist outfit to operate from Pakistan , which promotes infiltration of terrorist to enter into Indian territory to spread their terror network and which uses its  Army to Help and train terrorist in carrying out their terror attacks in various parts of the country, which took part in terror attack on USA and UK and what not .

But Pakistan is still favoured by USA and India. 

USA is going to improve relation with Pakistan even at the cost of that with India and similarly India is bent upon making friendly relation with Pakistan even at the cost of its relation with USA.  

On the contrary USA has tightened VISA policy for Indians and India has relaxed VISA policy with Pakistan. India has allowed Indian banks to operate in Pakistan and Pakistan as a matter of gesture Pakistan based banks will be  allowed to operate in India.

USA is trying to remove Terror Tag associated with Pakistan and India is also trying to forget 26 /11 terror attack in Mumbai.India has long ago assigned the 'Most Favoured Status' to Pakistan despite all incidents of terror attacks exported from Pakistan to India.

I am unable to understand the politics, the economics and the diplomacy behind such turn in relations.It may be a well planned stage drama being played by politicians turned actors.

Indian politicians especially belonging to Congress Party , after Mumbai terror attack had taken a vow to ensure proper punishment to those who took part in that condemnable act and all parties unanimously had condemned Pakistan which directly or indirectly helped in successful carrying out of terror attack. 

Indians leaders of various parties had promised victims in Mumbai in particular and Indians in general  that they will not have any relation with Pakistan till India takes revenge of 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai and ensure adequate punishment to terrorists. It appears they have all forgot these promises and their commitment made to the Nation .

Politicians are more often than not are of dubious nature , corrupt culture and doubtful character . This is why they are double minded, they speak something and do something else.

Politicians in power has to first safeguard their chair and then the nation. This is why they do something and they speak different in their own land .They preach and promise something before Indian voters but seldom keep them in memory 

One thing has however become clear that Pakistanis politicians are cleverer than Indians and Americans.

USA understood Pakistan and stopped all terror activities spreading from foreign network.

On the contrary India has been in continuous process of dialogue  with Pakistan  for more than two decades , still there is no reduction in terror attacks in India .

To add fuel to fire Pakistan gets success in motivating India as per their whims and fancies and got a gift from India of Most Favoured State and  now gets relaxation in VISA norms . They got success in forcing Indian politicians to forget the incidents of various terror attack which took place in India .

 It is now upto you to ascertain whether Indian rulers befool Indians or they stab the country from the back. 

This is a big question which every Indian must try to answer.

Pakistan and India agree to ease visa restrictions

By Aisha Chowdhry

ISLAMABAD | Sat Sep 8, 2012 8:18pm IST

(Reuters) - Pakistan and India will ease tough visa restrictions, an important step forward in improving relations between the nuclear armed neighbours, their foreign ministers said Saturday.

The agreement was the culmination of a visit by Indian Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna to Pakistan as part of a tentative peace process that froze after Pakistani militants attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, killing 166 people.

"A step-by-step approach is what will take the relationship forward," said Krishna.

The new pact offers several different types of visa. Pakistanis visiting India have long grumbled about the restrictive visa regime for both tourists and businesses.

Pakistani business travellers are restricted to particular cities, so visitors cannot travel from Delhi to the nearby thriving business hub of Gurgaon without permission.

Business people also have to report to an Indian police station in the evenings "like a criminal", Pakistani trade official Zafar Mahmood complained in April.

Indians visiting Pakistan face similar restrictions on moving between cities.

The two countries have gone to war three times since Pakistan split from India in 1947.

"We will not be held hostage to history," said Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar.

In April, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visited India, the first trip by a Pakistani head of state in seven years. Last year Pakistan promised India most-favoured nation trading status.

But potential flashpoints between the two nations remain.

They include a long-running dispute over the mountainous province of Kashmir, currently divided between the two nations; Indian dams that Pakistanis say threaten their water supply and possible future attacks like those in Mumbai.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/08/pakistan-india-visas-idINDEE88705020120908?feedType=RSS&feedName=globalCoverage2

No terror tag for Pakistan, ISI: US

Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN | Sep 8, 2012, 06.03PM IST

WASHINGTON: The United States is not considering terror tags for Pakistan and its intelligence agency ISI despite charges of their patronage of terrorist groups, American officials said on Friday, following the designation of the Pakistan-backed Haqqani network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

"We are making absolutely no effort to begin a process to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism," a Senior Administration Official told journalists in a background briefing, adding, "If anything, they have been an extremely valuable ally in countering extremism and terrorism, and we are committed to continuing and maintaining and increasing that coordination and cooperation."

The remarks came in the face of copious commentaries in Pakistan's own civil society and media about the country's slide into extremism and patronage of terrorism, unhindered and in some cases supported by the government, the military-intelligence, and the judiciary. Pakistan also brazenly cracked down on people who helped the US eliminate Osama bin Laden attracting wide censure in the US and elsewhere.

One official also reeled back the description by former US military chief Mike Mullen of the Haqqani Network as a "veritable arm" of the ISI, saying "this in no way is the consensus, unanimous view of this Administration." Weeks after a case in which the ISI was also accused of illegally funneling money to the US (in the Fai case), the official maintained that the administration's action was "targeted specifically at the Haqqani Network. It is not targeted in any way at any organ of the Pakistani Government."

The officials also clarified that there is no relationship between an FTO designation and a state sponsorship one. "There is none....there's no legal relationship between these things. In plenty of countries, we have had groups designated and it's never made any difference in terms of our deliberations regarding the bilateral relationship with that country, except of course to strengthen our resolve to work with them to deal with their extremism problem," one of the two officials who briefed said.

Reflecting the complex, tricky, and often contradictory policy under which Washington tries to deal with Pakistan despite its dalliance with terrorism, one of the officials said the administration had previewed the Haqqani designation with senior civilian and military leadership in Pakistan for several weeks and "they did not express concern about this designation." But the designation was criticized by Islamabad as soon as it was announced, with a warning from one unnamed Pakistani official that it will "negatively impact future relations with Pakistan."

But the US officials maintained they did not "foresee that this will have a negative impact on the overall relationship," and said Washington will continue to engage with Pakistan "to ensure that we are cooperating as effectively as possible to eliminate the threat posed to both US. and Pakistani interests." There was no mention of the Haqqani network attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul which killed one of its diplomats and military personnel, and which US sources had said was conducted at the behest of the Pakistani intelligence.

The US officials conceded that Washington and Islamabad have had a difficult time: in the last 18 months but things were looking up and "we expect that trajectory to continue."

Over the coming weeks, a series of bilateral senior meetings are expected to take place in the lead-up to the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, including the possible visits to Washington of Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, President Zardari, and military chief, Pervez Ashfaq Kayani, as the two sides try and put their ties back on track.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/No-terror-tag-for-Pakistan-ISI-US/articleshow/16312352.cms

Tougher US visa regime to hurt Indian IT firms

Proposed norms to necessitate greater disclosure of employee, client details, bring companies in conflict with privacy laws

Bibhu Ranjan Mishra / Bangalore Aug 22, 2012, 00:44 IST The Indian IT industry is in for a tougher visa regime in its biggest market, the US. Firms such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro that send thousands of techies on short-term business assignments to the US will now have to disclose personal details of these employees and names of the American companies they are assigned to. That will potentially limit Indian IT companies’ flexibility to take quick staffing decisions besides putting the nitty-gritty of their US operations in public glare at a time when the political climate there is decidedly against outsourcing. The US department of labour has proposed significant changes in the labour condition application (LCA) for visa petitions. Under the existing immigration law in the US, all employers are required to obtain LCA approval from the department of labour to file for H-1B and certain other short-term business visas. The LCA filed electronically is considered a procedural ‘rubber stamp’ in the H-1B visa application process. The proposed changes would require employers to disclose end-clients’ names. More importantly, they will have to furnish personal information of employees, including name, date of birth, country of birth, salary and pending permanent residency applications. Most companies plan their visa programme much before identifying the prospective employees to be deputed. EMPLOYERS MUST... Disclose personal info about each applicant and name of the client to be served  Declare the foreign worker will be paid at least the wages people in the same occupation in the US get  Attest that employing the H-1B worker will not adversely affect the working conditions for others employed in the area COMPANIES’ WORRIES Releasing personal info to the public may violate state laws and company policies regarding the disclosure of pvt employee data  Firms won’t get a jump-start on the H-1B filing process as they must identify the beneficiaries first and then plan the visa petition process  Ability to quickly hire and move employees to new work sites would be hit  Clients may not like their names to be disclosed “It would require a lot of planning in terms of identifying the beneficiaries so that they can file the LCA and then petition for the visa,” said Mumbai-based immigration lawyer Poorvi Chothani. Since all such information is proposed to be kept available in a public access file, there could be leakage of confidential information to the public. That would affect companies as most of them sign non-disclosure agreements with end-clients. Industry body Nasscom said it was in the process of evaluating the proposals and would submit comments to the US authorities before the due date. “We have nothing to hide. We want to see that it does not become a big operational bottleneck and affect the efficiencies of our industry,” said Ameet Nivasarkar, vice-president, Nasscom. “Of course, confidentiality and privacy concerns need to be addressed,” he added. “The labour department believes it is helping US workers and penalising employers who hire H-1B workers,” said Sheela Murthy, president and founder of Murthy Law Firm, an immigration law specialist in the US. The proposed changes are on review till September 7, by which various stakeholders must offer feedback. Given the anti-outsourcing sentiment brewing in the US in an election year, industry observers feel there are chances of some of the changes getting implemented. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tougher-us-visa-regime-to-hurt-indian-it-firms/483993/ 9 SEP, 2012, 04.49AM IST, ISHANI DUTTAGUPTA,ET BUREAU  Will the new US visa system lead to delays and higher costs? The new visa processing system announced by the US embassy in India recently aims at standardising rules and simplifying fee payment and appointment schedules through a new website. While announcing the new system in Delhi, US head for consular affairs, Julia Stanley, said that from September 26, 2012, US visa applicants in India will be able to pay application fees via electronic fund transfer. For the first time, applicants will be able to schedule their appointments online or by phone. Further, the new system will also allow companies and travel agents to purchase multiple fee receipts for group travel. Visa applicants will be able to have their questions answered via telephone, email, or online chat. The new system will also allow companies and travel agents to purchase multiple fee receipts for group travel. However, questions are being raised over the likely delays which could result from strict laws on data transfer from the offices of offsite facilitation centres, run by outsourcing partners of the US embassy and consulates. Under the new system, visa applicants will have to make two appointments. The first one prior to their visa interviews at the offsite facilitation centre to submit their fingerprints and a photo and the second at the embassy or consulate for the visa interview. "The new system, to begin with, will be a two-day process and could delay the issuance of visas. Those who have to travel to other destinations for visa applications, such as those applying under blanket L-1 approvals, who need to go to Chennai, will have to bear additional travel and hotel expenses. However, the category of applicants who are exempt from interviews will gain from the new procedure as their fingerprinting process will not be delayed due to backlogs at the consular offices," says Mumbai-based immigration lawyer Poorvi Chothani. Vexed Data Transfer issue The British High Commission, which introduced biometric fingerprinting and digital photographs for all visa applicants in India some years back, had faced initial problems because of Indian legislation which does not permit the collection of biometric data at the offices of visa outsourcing partners. Since the biometric data from the offices of the visa outsourcing partner cannot be directly uploaded into the systems of theUK Border Agency, it is downloaded into storage devices and physically moved to the British consular offices. This, according to the UK authorities, leads to a minimum delay of two days in issuing visas to visitors from India. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/nri/visa-and-immigration/will-the-new-us-visa-system-lead-to-delays-and-higher-costs/articleshow/16315700.cms