Champions Trrophy has started in Pakistan and the hosts played their first match against New Zealand. However, cricket fans did not reach the ground to watch the match of their own country’s team and the stadium in Karachi remained empty. Pakistan Cricket Board and the government are also being criticized for this. But everyone’s eyes are now on the Mahamukabale of India-Pakistan to be held on February 23, which is to be in Dubai.
Fight to go to Dubai
Pakistanis may not be going to watch the match at their home ground, but there is a competition for tickets and visas to watch matches against India. According to the report of ‘Don’, a large number of Pakistanis living in Pakistan and other countries want to go to Dubai to watch the match against India but they have a big problem.
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At first, all the tickets for this match were sold in about an hour as soon as the sale started online. Some people were lucky who got tickets. But now they have to make papad to get a UAE visa. Cricket fans are applying for a visa after getting tickets but they are not getting a visa of UAE to go to Dubai. Some fans said that in the morning applied for visas and in the evening the application was rejected without giving any reason.
Visa applications are being rejected
There were some cricket fans who tried to contact the embassy through e-mail and phone after cancellation of online visa application. However, there was disappointment and no response was received. According to the report, people from different cities of Pakistan are applying for UAE visas, but apart from working visas, they are not getting a tourist visa approval.
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According to the report, UAE officials have recently increased the investigation of Pakistanis coming to the country. Because they are accused of involvement in illegal activities like crime and begging. The government has issued instructions to conduct intensive investigation and verification of all Pakistani passengers coming to UAE. Guidelines have also been issued to travel agents regarding this.
Including begging and crime
The UAE committee has not imposed any restriction on giving working visas to Pakistanis coming to the country. But despite this, it is very difficult to get a tourist visa. The UAE government fears that the Pakistanis who come on visit visas come here and begs and this causes the government to face a lot of trouble. On the other hand, during an interview with Jio News in November last year, UAE’s political Bakhit Atik Alremithi in Karachi revealed that Pakistanis’ visas could be canceled due to negative social media activities.
In fact, Pakistan had received constant complaints about people going to countries like UAE and Saudi Arabia from Pakistan. Apart from going to such countries, Pakistanis were accused of involvement in smuggling and other illegal activities. Since then, these countries have put thousands of Pakistani citizens in the no-fly list last year and Pakistan has also stopped such people in their country on suspicion, who wanted to go abroad.