India relaxes norms for Indian citizenship to Pak nationals
Submitted by admin4 on 10 June 2010 - 5:08pm
By TCN News,
New Delhi: Two days after the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh visited Kashmir extending hands of friendship to Pakistan, the Government of India today relaxed norms for Indian Citizenship to certain categories of Pakistan Nationals staying in India.
Union Ministry of Home Affairs has asked to the State Governments/UT Administration to consider cases for extension of the Long-term Visa (LTV) of certain categories of Pakistani nationals without insisting of validity of passports as per the provisions of the Gazette notification issued on May, 15, 2010 as such Pakistani nationals have come to India permanently with the intention to attain Indian citizenship. “However, only such Pakistani nationals are eligible to be considered for grant/extension of LTV who have come to India on or before December, 31, 2010,” says the Central Government release.
The matter was examined in consultation with the Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Law and it has been decided to grant exemption to such Pak nationals from the provisions of Rule 3 of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920. Accordingly, an order to this effect has been notified on May 15, 2010.
The following categories of Pak nationals are covered to enable them to qualify for extension of Visa:
(a) Member of minority communities in Pakistan (Hindus & Sikhs)
(b) Pak women married to Indian nationals and staying in India.
(c) Indian women married to Pak nationals and returning due to widowhood/divorce and having no male member to support them in Pakistan and
(d) Cases involving extreme compassion.
“In addition to abovementioned four categories of Pak nationals, grant of LTV is also being considered in the case of male Muslim community members being originally Indian citizen who went to Pakistan after partition leaving behind family in India and returned back to India on a valid passport issued by the Government of Pakistan and settled in the State of Kerala so that they can acquire Indian Citizenship,” the government said.
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long stay visa -recent notification
daily khilafat,bombay had published in its issue of 1950-51 those were abnormal times and pakistan and india should sit together to decide repatriation of uprooted families,both hindus and muslims and arrange for their rehabilitation in their original homes.the advice was not heeded to.the author qurrat ul ain hyder in her epic AAG KA DARIYA wrote the local and muhajir prejudice is more severe in pakistan than hindu-muslim prejudice in prepartition india.The advice can still be cosidered.it should'nt be mass transfer of population but in small numbers both ways.
coming back to rajputana
my grand father migrated to paksitan, my father and i were born in the shit pak, now i realised that my mother land is not pak but rajputana where all my ancestors had lived and died,while in pak only my father and grand father died, so why should i stay here. i wana come back to rajputana to mix my soul with the land , the soil that make me up. how can i do it. please answer me.
i wholeheartedly desire to marry someone from rajputana. if you know any lady, please let me know. i will be happy to marry a lady from rajputana. i am blue blood rajput and i want my kids to be blue blood rajput as well.
thnaks
Asif Rajput
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