New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) Continuing her humanitariangesture, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj todayannounced that two Pakistani nationals will be given visa forundergoing liver transplant surgeries in India.
The minister said that she has asked the Indian HighCommissioner in Islamabad to give visa to Naseem Akhtar, aPakistani woman, for her liver transplant surgery in India.
Swaraj's intervention came after Akhtar's son requestedfor her help.
"I have asked Indian High Commissioner to give Visa foryour mother's liver transplant surgery in India," the externalaffairs minister said in a tweet.
Swaraj said another visa was being granted to Pakistaninational Shabbir Ahmed Shah who also required a livertransplant surgery.
"We are giving Visa for your father's liver transplantsurgery in India," she said on Twitter.
Shah's son Ali Asadullah had earlier requested Swaraj onthe social media platform to issue visa to his father for histreatment in India.
Swaraj has been sympathetically considering medical visaapplications from scores of Pakistani nationalsnotwithstanding strain in the relationship between the twocountries over a host of issues, including cross-borderterrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. PTI MPBSRY.
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