New Delhi, December 27: Stoking another potential row, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has questioned the tightening of visa regulations in the backdrop of the David Headley case and asked whether India would allow terrorists to make it a “less welcoming” destination.
Tharoor, who had set-off major controversies in the past by his tweets over Government?s austerity drive and some other issues, in his latest posting on the social networking site Twitter says, “26/11 killers had no visas.”
The Union Home Ministry has tightened visa regulations in the wake of multi-entry visas given to Pakistani-American Headley and Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, both arrested in the US for plotting terror attacks against India which has prompted criticism from the US and British governments.
Tharoor appeared to ask whether the move made any sense at all.
–Agencies