[DAWN] "Hell," as Sartre observes so pithily, "is other people".This, it seems, is increasingly our fate in Pakistain as door after door shuts on us. Sri Lanka was one of the few countries that issued Paks visas on arrival at Colombo airport. No longer, alas. I feel personally deprived as I have been going to the lovely island regularly for some 15 years, and spending much of the winter there.
This change in policy has been caused by the hundreds of Paks who have claimed political asylum in the country. Ahmadis and Christians, suffering from violence and persecution in Pakistain, have been driven to this extreme measure, and who can blame them?