QAMAR ABBAS JAHFRI
ATTOCK : Thousands of Pakistan origin Indian families have expressed their deep concern over the non-cooperative attitude of Pakistani High Commission at New Delhi while getting process of their passports and national identity cards for overseas Pakistanis after experiencing bureaucratic snags from pillar to post since long. The aggrieved families in Muzafar Nagar of Uttar Pradesh particular women from Pakistan who got wedlocked with Indian Muslims after partition of two countries in 1947 complained that they have to experience worst kind of hardships when they come to appear before the Pakistani High Commission at New Delhi after traveling from different far flung areas of India to get fresh passport or renewed their documents and stamped their visas. The Pakistani families are also playing their active role in various fields of socio-economic development of India who even lost their breath there but could not succeed to get their Indian nationality. They are at the mercy of lethargic and non-cooperative attitude of Pakistani officials posted in the Pakistani High Commission under one pretext or the other. The senior citizens, women, children are compelled to stand in long ques under a steel shelter till closing hours or kept at waiting in front of green lawn in the sizzling winter without any hot and cooling arrangements. They are also refused renewal of their passports with the condition to get renewed their national identity cards for overseas Pakistanis from NDRA in Pakistan. Even, the armed security guard at the main entrance did not allow to get access with the relevant desk officer for completion of their legal formalities. The Pakistani families demanded of the Prime Minister Pakistan Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to interfere in the serious matters being mishandled by the Pakistani High Commission at New Dehlhi.
