Author: Press Trust of India
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: January 31, 2006
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1613156,000900010006.htm
More than 5,000 Pakistan nationals who entered
India in the past five years are missing.
Acting on intelligence report, the Union Home
Ministry has directed the Haryana Police to trace the 342, who had not returned
after the expiry of their visas.
It had also alerted the police chiefs of all
the other states in the country to trace Pakistan nationals who were granted
visas and had not returned, Haryana Home Department officials said.
Director General of Police Nirmal Singh had
issued a directive to Superintendents of Police of all districts in the state
to launch a massive hunt to apprehend them and send their reports to state
headquarters by February 16, they said.
The Union Home Ministry had sent a list of
342 Pakistan nationals issued visas to visit different parts of Haryana who
had not returned.
It had taken the action on the basis of reports
from intelligence and security agencies that more than 5,000 of them who had
entered India in the past five years were missing, the officials said.